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HON-WEUDON B. HEPBURN 



WELDON BRINTON HEYBURN 

(Late a Senator from Idaho) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 

AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS 
THIRD SESSION 



Proceedings in the Senate Proceedings in the House 

March 1, 1913 February 23, 1913 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 




WASfflNGTON 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in the Senate 5 

Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 5, 9 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Borah, of Idaho 11 

Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 15 

Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 20 

Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 22 

Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont 27 

Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 30 

Mr. Burton, of Ohio 34 

Mr. Jones, of Washington 36 

Mr. Root, of New York 40 

Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 42 

Mr. Myers, of Montana 46 

Mr. Pomerene, of Ohio 49 

Mr. Brady, of Idaho 51 

Proceedings in the House 57 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 58 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. French, of Idaho 61 

Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 80 

Mr. Kahn, of California 83 

Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 85 

Mr. Howell, of Utah 89 

Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri 93 

Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 96 

Mr. La Follette, of Washington 99 

Death of Senator Heyburn 105 

Funeral services 106 

Proclamation by the Governor of Idaho 113 

Resolution of the Idaho Legislature 114 

Idaho memorial services 115 

Tributes 118 



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DEATH OF HON. WELDON BRINTON HEYBURN 



Proceedings in the Senate 

Monday, December 2, 1912. 

The first Monday in December being the day prescribed 
by the Constitution of the United States for the annual 
meeting of Congress, the third session of the Sixty-second 
Congress commenced on this day. 

The Senate assembled in its Chamber at the Capitol. 

Augustus O. Bacon, a Senator from the State of Georgia, 
took the chair as President pro tempore under the order 
of the Senate of August 17, 1912. 

The President pro tempore called the Senate to order 
at 12 o'clock noon. 

prayer 

The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
the following prayer : 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose presence 
we now stand, we are come together in Thy name and to 
do Thy will. At the opening of this session of Congress 
we invoke Thy blessing. Without Thee we can do noth- 
ing. Until Thou dost bless us, our highest wisdom is but 
folly and our utmost strength but utter weakness. Bestow 
upon us, therefore, we humbly pray Thee, wisdom and 
strength from above, that so we may glorify Thee, accom- 
plishing that which Thou givest us to do. 

We come before Thee, our Father, with a deepened 
sense of our dependence upon Thee. Thou hast made 
us to know how frail we are. Thou hast showed us that 
the way of man is not in himself alone, and that it is not 

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in us who walk to direct our steps. Thou hast called 
from his earthly labors Thy servant, the Vice President of 
our Nation. While we thought it was still day Thou didst 
cause the sun of his life to go down, bringing the night, 
when no man can work. We murmur not nor repine, 
our Father, knowing that alike the day and the night are 
Thine. Thou hast taken from our side fellow laborers 
and companions, leaving in this Senate empty seats and 
in our hearts loneliness and sorrow. We can not forget 
them, our Father, though in the flesh we behold their 
faces no more. Thou hast removed from his post of duty 
an officer of this body and hast made us to know that in 
the midst of life we are in death. Comfort our hearts, 
we beseech Thee, for all our sorrows, and keep us ever- 
more in Thy love, and though Thou feed us with the 
bread of adversity and give us to drink of the water of 
affliction, yet take not from us Thy holy spirit. 

We pray Thee to bless the President of the United 
States. Uphold him by Thy power, watch over him by 
Thy providence, guide him by Thy wisdom, and strengthen 
him with Thy heavenly grace. Bless him who shall pre- 
side over this Senate, bestowing upon him all things as 
shall seem good unto Thee. For all who are in authority 
we pray that they may serve Thee with singleness of pur- 
pose, for the good of this people and for Thy glory. 

So, our Father, may this session of Congress, begun in 
Thy name, be continued in Thy fear and ended to Thine 
honor. Grant us so to labor that by our deliberations "we 
may hasten the time when Thy kingdom shall come and 
Thy will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

In the name which is above every name, hear our 
prayer. Amen. 



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DEATH OF SENATOR WELDON B. HEYBURN 

Mr. Borah. Mr. President, it becomes my sad duty to 
announce to the Senate the death of my late colleague, 
Hon. W. B. Heyburn. To those who witnessed his sin- 
gular devotion to duty in the closing hours of the last ses- 
sion under conditions which all realized imperiled his 
life, the news of his death came as no surprise. One less 
determined to perform faithfully the obligations of his 
high office, one less mindful of the responsibilities which 
rest upon us here, would have yielded to the solicitation 
of friends and sought the rest and recuperation which he 
so much needed. But understanding perfectly the forfeit 
which he might be called upon to pay, he nevertheless 
met without hesitancy and with spirit and purpose the 
exacting duties of that trying session. With equal forti- 
tude and courage he paid the forfeit when the time came 
to do so. 

Senator Heyburn was a remarkable man, a strong, 
sturdy, self-reliant, dominant figure. But this is not the 
time nor the appropriate occasion for extended remarks; 
upon some other occasion I shall ask the Senate to set 
aside a day upon which his colleagues may pay tribute 
to his work and worth as a man and as a legislator. 

I offer the following resolutions and ask for their 
adoption. 

The President pro tempore. The Secretary will read the 
resolutions sent to the desk by the Senator from Idaho. 

The resolutions (S. Bes. 391) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows : 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator 
from the State of Idaho. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of 
the deceased. 

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Mr. CuLLOM. Mr. President, I desire as a further mark 
of respect to offer the following resolution, and I ask for 
its present consideration. 

The resolution (S. Res. 393) was read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows: 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the late Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman and the late 
Senators Weldon Brinton Heyburn and Isidor Rayner, whose 
deaths have just been announced, the Senate do now adjourn. 

Thereupon the Senate (at 12 o'clock and 22 minutes 
p. m.) adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, December 3, 
1912, at 11 o'clock a. m. 

Thursday, December 5, 1912. 
A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate resolu- 
tions of the House on the death of Hon. Weldon Brinton 
Heyburn, late a Senator from the State of Idaho. 



Friday, February 7. 1913. 
Mr. Borah. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that 
on Saturday, March 1, 1913, after the conclusion of the 
routine morning business, I shall ask the Senate to con- 
sider resolutions commemorative of the character and 
services of my late colleague, Weldon B. Heyburn. 



Monday, February 2i, 1913. 
A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate resolu- 
tions of the House of Representatives on the life and 
public services of Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late 
a Senator from the State of Idaho. 

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Saturday, March 1, 1913. 
The Senate met at 10 o'clock a. m. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
the following prayer: 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we thank Thee 
for the gracious Providence which brings us to this day 
of solemn and reverent memorj'. As we recall the life 
and public service of him whom we this day commemo- 
rate, we pray Thee to inspire our minds and to give 
utterance to our lips that we may fitly honor the life 
which Thou hast called to Thy nearer presence and to 
Thy higher service. 

We pray Thee, our Father, to comfort those that mourn. 
Uphold them by Thy heavenly grace and grant that 
neither height of remembered joys nor the depth of 
sorrows that can not be forgotten, nor the present with 
its burdens nor the future wdth its loneliness, may be able 
to separate them from the love of God which is in Christ 
Jesus our Lord. 

In the name of Him who abolished death and brought 
life and immortality to light, hear Thou our prayer. 
Amen. 

Mr. Gallinger took the chair as President pro tempore 
under the previous order of the Senate. 

The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yester- 
day's proceedings, when, on request of Mr. Smoot and by 
unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed 
with and the Journal was approved. 

Mr. Borah. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which 
I send to the desk, and ask for their adoption. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Page in the chair). The 
Senator from Idaho offers resolutions, which the Secre- 
tary will read. 



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The resolutions (S. Res. 489) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from 
the State of Idaho. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
ceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable 
his associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and 
distinguished public services. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to 
the family of the deceased. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 

Mr. President: The time during which we are per- 
mitted to detain the Senate will not allow even a brief 
outline of the active and crowded career of our late col- 
league. We can do no more than pay the brief but sin- 
cere tribute of friends and pass on to the duties which 
crowd upon us in the closing hours of the session. In less 
hurried hours some one will render a full and true esti- 
mate of his work and seek to give adequate honor and 
praise for his public services. When time shall have re- 
vealed more fully the value of his efforts here and dis- 
closed with finer perspective the sturdy outlines of his 
strong and dominant character, a more dispassionate yet 
truer measure will be taken and he will assume the place 
to which he is justly entitled among the virile and forceful 
figures of the Senate. 

We are most impressed now with the thought that he 
was stricken while yet in the zenith of his intellectual 
powers and at a time when his lips still held the language 
of conflict, when his hopes were still high and his ambi- 
tions aroused for greater work. While those who watched 
him here day after day marked his physical decline, he 
proudly ignored the insidious encroachment of the per- 
sistent malady and fell at a time when he was merely 
waiting to take up again his work and when his whole 
intellectual being was tense and ready for the obligations 
resting upon all who serve here. While the unannounced 
messenger was waiting about to call him he was planning 



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and thinking of work far ahead and anxiously surveying 
the future for duties yet to be met and faithfully dis- 
charged. While eager and braced for the things which 
ought to be done, and which we are fitted to do, the sum- 
mons comes. " Behold, He taketh away, who can hinder 
Him." 

Born in comparatively humble station, surrounded 
from birth by the influences and environments of a de- 
vout and cultured home, reared amid the plainness and 
excellence of that old Quaker family life, the sanctity 
and simplicity of which no language can unduly praise, 
he started upon his career dowered with the most valu- 
able of all estates — a character open, candid, and sturdy, 
a mind original and independent, and, above all, a broad, 
wholesome conception of the true relations and responsi- 
bilities of life, inculcated nowhere so well as in that school 
over which presides a devoted and God-fearing mother. 
No one had a more beautiful conception of home life, a 
truer, kindlier, broader view of all things which make for 
its happiness and worth. These views and ideals were 
among the noble inheritances from his boyhood days. 

He had an individuality peculiar and surprising. His 
mental traits were exceptional. The dominant features 
of his character were energy, industry, and courage. He 
was one of the hard-working men of this body, strong in 
debate, faithful and efTicient in the less attractive but 
more effective work of the committee. We shall seldom 
witness a more complete sacrifice of comfort and health, 
a more pointed and direct sacrifice of life to public duties, 
than we witnessed upon his part for the last several years 
of his service. All understood this, but if the thought ever 
occurred to him that he was making such a sacrifice he 
made no mention of it to his colleagues or his friends. 
Faithfully, untiringly, efficiently he did his full duty and 



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Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 



met every demand of this arduous service, even until the 
last hour. 

I can not review here the vast work of Senator Hey- 
BURN as a legislator. There was no measure in which he 
did not take an interest. His activities covered the whole 
field of legislation. His knowledge of details, the status, 
terms, and provisions of all measures was tremendous. 
But it is probable that the one legislative measure with 
which his name will be most conspicuously associated 
is that of the pure-food law. It was a most difficult meas- 
ure to bring into effective form and and it was an extraor- 
dinary task to secure its passage through Congress. 
There was and there had been for years a strong oppo- 
sition to it. But with tireless effort and exceptional 
determination he whipped a great principle into a prac- 
ticable, workable measure, and finally secured its enact- 
ment into law. It is a monumental piece of work. Its 
benefit and general good can hardly be overestimated. 
It is a lasting tribute to his efficiency, energy, and courage 
as a legislator. It has already been of incalculable benefit 
to the country and will continue to be a widespreading 
and permanent blessing to mankind. It is that kind of a 
monument to public service which time will not destroy 
nor gratitude soon forget. The State of Idaho takes 
great pride in his work for this great and beneficent 
measure. 

Mr. President, Addison, the essayist, tells us in his rich, 
rare old way that once, while visiting a famous art gal- 
lery, he observed while there an old man creeping up 
and down, here and there, from one painting to another, 
retouching one and all with inimitable skill. So slight 
was the touch that it seemed scarcely to leave an effect. 
Continuously and incessantly he labored until through 
ceaseless effort he wore off every disagreeable gloss, 
added to all a deeper, richer hue, an infinite mellow- 



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ness and charm, until all the paintings seemed more 
beautiful than when they came from the hands of the 
masters. The old man was Father Time. Standing near 
to a life that is closed, there appears in spite of all some 
of that roughness and harshness born of severe and ear- 
nest battle. But time smooths off the rough edges, har- 
monizes and mellows until the tempestuous struggle be- 
comes at last a splendid and heroic poem of passion and 
duty. The difference of view, the conflict of opinion, the 
harsh clash of convictions will fade and forever disap- 
pear, and our late colleague will be remembered by one 
and all as an earnest, loyal, gifted, heroic man. 



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Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 

Mr. President: The seventeenth century among the 
English-speaking people was a period of profound unrest, 
both in politics and in religion. It brought in its train a 
great civil war, the Puritan migration to America, and a 
spirit of religious revolt which left no creed unexamined, 
no forms and ceremonies, however hallowed by time and 
association, unquestioned, and which engendered innu- 
merable sects. England and Scotland had broken from 
Rome a century before at the time of the Reformation. 
They had escaped the wars of religion which had rent 
France asunder, and the Thirty Years' War which had 
devastated and ruined Germany. The religious move- 
ment in seventeenth-century England entered upon a new 
field; it set Protestant against Protestant; it struck at the 
ecclesiastical hierarchy, assailed the union of church and 
state, drove some men back to the ancient faith of their 
ancestors, and at the other extreme found expression in 
dangerous fighting fanatics like the Fifth Monarchy Men. 

Among the sects which then sprang into life was one 
which at its birth was regarded by the members of the 
powerful and dominant churches as among the worst 
examples of uncurbed fanaticism. Its founder was a 
laboring man, so ignorant that he could not express him- 
self clearh' when he wrote his own language, so energetic 
and with such strength of conviction that as he wandered 
over England with his immovable hat and leather 
breeches he gathered followers in everj' town and hamlet. 
So strange, so violent, so effective was he that even Roger 
Williams, the apostle of freedom of conscience, could not 
abide the doctrines of George Fox. The Old World and 

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the New World alike beheld with horror the disciples of 
this strange teacher rushing naked through the streets and 
into churches, breaking glass and crying out that it was 
done as a sign to a perverse generation. Under the guid- 
ance of Barclay and Penn the extravagances were soft- 
ened and gradually a sect emerged which, by its numbers 
and character, played an important part both in England 
and in America. Stripped of the external and unessential 
peculiarities like the refusal to remove the hat, the misuse 
of the pronoun of the second person singular, and the 
like, it became perceptible even then, as it is very appar- 
ent now, that these people, called Friends among them- 
selves and Quakers by a deriding world, stood for a great 
and noble principle and cherished a very simple and beau- 
tiful faith. They held that all men were equal in the 
sight of God, that every man was a priest and every 
woman a priestess when they approached the throne of 
the Most High, and that no ceremonies or titles conferred 
by human beings could invest anyone with the right to 
stand between man and his Maker. Their faith was very 
pure, very austere, very spiritual, possibly too bright and 
good for human nature's daily food. Perhaps it is for 
this reason that the sect has diminished in numbers; per- 
haps it is because their work, a very great work, has been 
done. But the conception of a free church in a free State, 
first established in Pennsylvania, now common to the 
United States, and at last making its way in Europe, is a 
monument to the doctrines of the Friends which will 
neither fade nor pass away. As the years went on the 
Quakers, as they were usually called, rose steadily in im- 
portance and in public estimation. The sobriety of their 
conduct and manners, their diligence and success in busi- 
ness, the purity and honesty of their daily lives, their love 
of peace, their steady opposition to slavery and to oppres- 
sion, and their charity ever open armed to the poor and 



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downtrodden, won the respect and admiration of every 
community where their modest meetinghouses were seen. 

But behind the fair and pleasant exterior, behind the 
place which they had won for themselves, lay the quali- 
ties of character upon which the whole structure rested. 
The very existence of the sect implied mental and moral 
qualities of unusual force. At the outset they had contin- 
ually to face contumely, opprobrium, and a persecution 
reaching to scourgings, prison, and death. They were in 
opposition to the world and the world's ways and became 
indifferent to the censure of a hostile public opinion. 
They were bound by their tenets to nonresistance and for 
them were necessary the fortitude and courage which 
meet the scorn of society, physical suffering, and even 
death, not with blood warmed by the heady currents of 
the fight, but cold, unstirred, and chilled by the ridicule 
and the contempt too often felt for those who will not 
fight or return blow for blow. 

They had only one guide, their own conscience; only one 
monitor, the inner voice, which told them what was right. 
Strong men and women these, and, like the strongly 
marked everywhere, they transmitted these qualities 
through succeeding generations to their descendants. The 
outward forms of dress and speech might disappear, but 
the fearlessness, the independence of thought, the readi- 
ness to defy the world for a belief, the unswerving loy- 
alty to principle, were sure to remain. These character- 
istics all came out in their descendants. Those who laid 
aside the ancestral doctrine of nonresistance were among 
the hardest and bravest fighters in the armies of the 
United States during the Civil War, and, whether in peace 
or war, no people can be found who will battle more 
strenuously for what they believe to be right than the 
men and women of Quaker ancestry. 



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Memorlu. .\r>DRESSES: Senator Hetburn 

It may seem, sir, as if I were not speaking at all of the 
distinguished Senator whose death we lament to-day, 
and yet every word that I have uttered relates to him, 
for in trying to depict the qualities of the people whom 
William Penn led over here into the wilderness I have 
been explaining and describing Senator HE"i"BrR>'. He 
was of an old. long-estabUshed family in Pennsylvania. 
The blood of the men and women who 200 years before 
had unshrinkingly faced social ostracism, persecution, 
and death ran uncomipted in his veins. He feared noth- 
ing, so far as I could see. You might question his opin- 
ion; you could never doubt his courage. His abilities were 
of a high order. He was a good lawyer, a %'igorous de- 
bater, ready and apt in retort. He had a large command 
of language, and his sentences fell from his Ups well 
framed, strong, and clear. His industry was untiring, and 
he strove, to his o^-n injurj'. but from a high sense of 
duty, to follow eveni" measure which came before the 
Senate. 

Yet it is not of his abilities nor of his worth as a lawyer 
and Senator that I think first as \\ith sadness I try to 
recall him to-day. It is his character and his moral qual- 
ities which come most sharply to my mind, and which in 
his life made a deep impression upon me. I confess 
when I first met him here I was often exasperated by 
what seemed to me an almost perverse spirit of opposi- 
tion, but as I came to know him better I learned to recog- 
nize his courage, his high principles, his loyalty to his 
beliefs, and his faithfulness to duty as he saw it, a fidelity 
which never faltered or grew pale. I learned, too, that, 
hard fighter as he was, no resentment ever lurked in 
his memory when the battle was over, and that under- 
neath the combativeness was one of the kindest and 
most generous hearts that ever beat As he cheerfully 
faced criticism and attack for what he believed to be 



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AiiM>R< OF Mil Lodge, of MAS&jwcHrsETTS 

right so did be meet the comifig of :> - : 7-r :-d 
of fate knocked at the 6oar. H' " ' - 

did not Bincb; be did not retreai 
his back on eifber Meiid or eaaaacj, and v. 
high ^irit and unwavering courage be went &:: 
voik and stood bis gromid in tbe d rhalTB and . 
mittee. As I vatcbedbiin in dioselastdays, oft<ri z 

him to seek rest and give himself nxwe care, aL _ 
vain to a man of diat nature; as I sav hira so calmly 
readv for the final sommoDS, &vwmng's ^cat lines '^-z: 
recurring to my mind: 

Fear dorth?— 4o fed Oe f og ia aj throat. 

The aast m lar face. 
IThcB tte saovsbe^B, zmA fkcMaati 

I » aeanng tke ^aee. 
Tbe p<nrer of flie n^U, &e press off 

The post xd Oe foe: 
IFhexe ke itiaitr, the Arck Fear ia a viaUe f « 

Yet tbe stroag maat wmaA go: 
For tbe jaanej is done aad &e 

Aad Ae barriers fall, 
Tboi«h a faatfle's to 1^ ere Ae gtrJoa be gWHi i, 

Tbe remard oi it alL 

Tbe best a^ Oe lad! 
I ■iMfci bale fbaft deaA bi l l iff J aj ejres a^ forebore. 

Aad bade Me creep past. 
Ko! let lae taste tbe -vbole of it, fare Eke hj peers 

Tbe beroes ^ old. 
Bear tte teaat, ia a »»iimto- pay glad Ef e's arrears 

(^ paa. darkness aad eoid. 
For saddea tbe want tms Oe best to tte 1 



Aad tbe deaKatsr' i^e. tbe be« d^a k» tbit rave;, 

Shan dwindle, AaB kiead, 
ShaD '■iMiy . ^aSi becrrr? £rs$ a peace oat of 

a a • • 

Aad wiSi God be tbe rest! 

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Address of Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 

Mr. President: Senator Heyburn was a man of affirma- 
tive and positive characteristics. Although of Quaker 
stock, his mind and inclinations were essentially aggres- 
sive — always tolerant of the views of others, he yet formed 
his own opinions and held to them with a consistent and 
unusual tenacity. One of the kindest and most lovable 
of men, he never thought of swerving upon any public 
question by reason of any friendly or personal motives. 
If one virtue above others was a part of his nature, it was 
that of an intense and militant patriotism. He had no 
sympathy with what he considered the assaults of these 
later times upon the established order of the Government. 
He believed that the system of government devised and 
put into operation by the fathers was the work of wise 
and patriotic men, and that it had been fully tested and 
proven by the hundred years and more of successful op- 
eration, withstanding all the shock and strain of war and 
the more insidious but even more dangerous attacks in 
times of peace. He believed in the efficiency of the Con- 
stitution to meet all the requirements of our governmental 
life, and as a safe, sure, and stable foundation of our re- 
publican system, and if he had any one fear about the 
future of his country, it was that demands for amendment 
to the Constitution to meet immediate popular wishes 
would so weaken that foundation as to endanger the 
whole superstructure. In his discussion of public ques- 
tions he was always fearless, frank, and entirely inde- 
pendent; appreciating, as all men do, present approval, 
he never bent his views to meet that approval, but held 
his course direct and unwavering and with full confidence 



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Address of Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 

in the verdict of the future. While Senator Heyburn was 
wholly American and gloried in our national growth and 
greatness, and believed in the full power and strength of 
the General Government, at the same time he was exceed- 
ingly jealous of what he considered the rights of his State, 
and year after year, in his place on this floor, he resisted 
to the end certain general policies which he believed re- 
tarded her development and which in their operation he 
thought bore oppressively upon the citizens of the public- 
land States; year after year he waged a losing tight, yet 
year by year began the fight anew. He was always direct, 
bold, and aggressive, and while his cause might be un- 
successful, it gathered both strength and respect by the 
vigor and honesty of his advocacy. All in all. Senator 
Heyburn was a man of the highest type of American citi- 
zenship, faithful to his public and private duties and re- 
sponsibilities, assuming and attempting the duties of each 
day as each day came and accepting with a calm philoso- 
phy the result of each day's work, whatever that result 
might be, his temper as unruffled under defeat as in suc- 
cess, and he was entirely without malice or ill will toward 
an opponent, no matter how earnest or fierce the struggle. 
In private life he was a delightful companion, and his 
public services were of inestimable value. He occupied 
a place on the floor of this Chamber that will not soon 
be filled, and we as his colleagues have, in his death, suf- 
fered a loss that is well-nigh irreparable. He died as he 
had lived, in the front of the fray, and as he himself de- 
sired, as often expressed to his friends, in the full measure 
of his mental strength. He will be ever held in loving 
remembrance by his colleagues here, and his work written 
upon our statute books will ever be a fitting memorial of 
his public service. 



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Address of Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 

Mr. President: In the closing hours of the second ses- 
sion of this Congress, and while in the shadow of death. 
Senator Heyburn was cautioned concerning the great 
danger to his health if he persisted in his efforts on the 
floor of the Senate, and he was importuned to take at 
least a little rest. His answer was characteristic of the 
man. Though suffering greatly, with a smile of genial 
complacency he said : " Well, I do not know but that I 
am ready to die. I have seen much of life, have prob- 
ably had my share of it, and I know of no better time to 
meet death than when one is in the performance of a duty 
which he owes to his country." These words were uttered 
in no spirit of bravado, for such spirit was most foreign 
to his nature. They were spoken in the very presence of 
the grim reaper by one who looked into the face of death 
with calm, level eyes that knew no fear. They were 
spoken while artificial stimulants were being adminis- 
tered to his laboring heart that he might finish that day's 
work; that he might give to the Senate words of great 
import; that he might sow the seeds of wise thoughts, 
trusting to Providence that they might fall on fertile soil 
and bring forth their harvest of good. 

In listening to his words on this floor, always profound 
and ringing true to his convictions, we could not but be 
impressed with his seeming indifference to what many 
claimed to be public sentiment. But duty to him was to 
give the public the benefit of a judgment founded upon 
studious research, accurate reasoning, and calm delibera- 
tion. His political creed was that he who stands for right, 
according to his own conviction, uninfluenced by the effect 
of that stand on his own political destiny, will in the long 

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Address of Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 

run far better represent his people than he who caters 
to their every changing mood. He might sometimes be 
less popular, but he would always be much safer. With 
him duty and judgment went hand in hand, and neither 
individual interest nor popular clamor could ever disunite 
them. He knew that his every act and every utterance 
were dictated by his love of his fellow men. He was too 
candid to ever flatter and too honest to ever temporize 
with error. Without fear or favor, he conformed his vote 
and his efforts in debate to a judgment fortified by study 
and guided by devotion. 

With a great, deep, and loyal heart Senator Heyburn 
loved the people of his own State and the people of this 
Nation; loved them so well and sincerely that it never oc- 
curred to him that any one of them could ever doubt his 
fidelity, and this may account to some extent for a seem- 
ing indifference to public sentiment. No man was ever 
more devoted to their real welfare than he. To that in- 
terest he gave a mind of great penetration and powerful 
analysis. He was most studious and painstaking in his 
research, and was always master of the subject in hand. 
He was a great student, reading every night long past the 
midnight hour. Those who were ignorant of that habit 
might well wonder at his almost inexhaustible fund of 
information on every important occasion. The under- 
mining of his physical health by these long hours of studi- 
ous labor was his own loss and little reckoned by him — 
the benefit of that labor inured to his country's welfare, a 
cause of supremest moment to him. Those of us who 
were near him on the last evening of the session, when 
he was speaking so earnestly and prophetically for the 
people of the country, and knew that while his lips were 
uttering words of patriotic eloquence for his party and 
his countrj-^ his heart was struggling with faltering and 



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uneven throb, can never forget the sturdy grandeur of his 
nature — his faithfulness to the very end. 

His virtues were many, but were I called upon to des- 
ignate the one that seemed to glow with brighter luster 
than any other, I should speak the word patriotism. So 
deeply did he love his country, so devotedly did he love 
the men who had battled to save the Union, that many 
have thought he must have hated those who had bat- 
tled to destroy it; with such depth of patriotism did he 
cherish the memory of those who had died to uphold the 
Union cause that many may have thought there was a 
lingering bitterness in his heart toward those who had 
laid down devoted lives on the altar of a lost cause; so 
jealous was he lest the flag of a reunited country might 
not receive the homage due from all the people, that 
many may have thought that he doubted the devotion of 
every section to that flag. But those who had the great 
privilege of his friendship, and with it the opportunity to 
know him well, knew that no American citizen. North or 
South, was, or ever could be, without the portals of his 
great generous heart. 

Mr. President, we can know but little of each other 
even under conditions of greatest intimacy. In our world 
of social, business, and political relations, we mingle with 
men who can never know us and whom we can never 
know. Our real world is within ourselves, and that world 
is ever sacred in its secrecy. Across its portals none 
other may ever step. There is but one key that can un- 
lock even the vestibule to this inner world of self, the key 
of confidential friendship, and even from this position 
of vantage we can catch but the imperfect reflection of 
the true divinity of the soul, the twilight that but faintly 
heralds the glow of the real day. Sometimes I think it 
strange that the noblest impulses of the human heart, 
all that is purest and best, all that is truly sublime in 

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Address of Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 

our natures, persistently veils itself in secrecy and intui- 
tively recoils from publicity. And so it required this 
close, intimate friendship to understand the real, noble, 
generous character of Senator Heyburn. In the forum 
of debate he was firm and unyielding, a warrior to be 
feared, and yet a warrior always to be respected. But 
away from the line of battle, surrounded by friends and 
family, he was the very soul of gentleness, courtesy, gra- 
ciousness, kindliness, and charity. 

On the 20th day of October we laid his body in the tomb 
to return its substance to the earth that gave it, there for- 
ever to rest. To-day we enshrine his noble virtues in our 
hearts, there forever to live. 

Touched by our grief and inspired by our affection we 
seek to build a monument to his memory, not at his tomb, 
but in our hearts, and for its structure we draw from the 
depths of our natures the noblest and best of our im- 
pulses. His eyes can never behold the beauty of that 
structure, but the eyes of our own souls shall see it and 
our characters shall be ennobled by it. 

The qualities which we most regard in ourselves are 
those which we most cherish in others. Therefore, in 
paying our tribute to the noble dead we quicken into 
greater life the particular virtues which we praise. In 
these services we can not benefit the dead. He neither 
needs nor heeds our eulogies. But we can and do uncon- 
sciously benefit ourselves, and through ourselves, the 
world at large, by directing our thoughts toward those 
lofty heights of character which we extol in our friend, 
who has forever passed from our sight. 

As the volume which contains this day's memorial 
service to Senator Heyburn is closed, it will never be 
opened again except for a brief period by those who knew 
him and loved him. For to really know him was to truly 
love him. But the thoughts and impulses of this day, 

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combined with the memory of his life, the impression he 
made upon the consciousness of all who knew him, of 
all who heard his words of wisdom and earnest elo- 
quence, will be builded and cemented into a monument 
to his name and character that will endure with each of 
us so long as our own lives shall last; and as no force is 
ever lost to the world, so the subtle influence of a noble 
character, leaving its magnetic impress even on the stub- 
born law of heredity, and gently, but none the less surely, 
working a change in the course of its current, will be an 
undying influence that will be reflected and re-reflected 
down the ages. No lineal descendant will ever bear the 
name of Senator Heyburn, but unnumbered hosts shall 
bear the impress of his character. 



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Address of Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont 

Mr. President : During the period of my service in this 
body I recall no associate who at all times and under all 
circumstances manifested a higher conception of the du- 
ties and the obligations of a Senator of the United States 
than did Weldon B. Heyburn. He never limited the ap- 
plication of his great powers to questions which were of 
special interest to the people of his own State or to those 
residing in that section of the country from which he 
came, but from the day he entered the Senate until death 
claimed him he lived in the consciousness of the fact that 
he was a Senator of the United States in the proudest and 
broadest sense, and that as such he was required to scru- 
tinize every measure affecting the public interest; to ad- 
vance those which would serve the public good and to 
stamp with condemnation those which appeared doubtful 
or that might be mischievous. In the discharge of these 
duties he exhibited an industry almost incredible, and a 
degree of application found rarely, and only in men of 
great power, of trained intellects, and those who are nat- 
urally masterful. 

He was a tireless, intelligent worker. The statement 
would hardly seem believable, if the Congressional Rec- 
ord did not disclose the fact, that during the second ses- 
sion of the present Congress he engaged in debates on the 
floor of the Senate which involved a discussion of nearly 
150 diff"erent subjects of legislation. All this he did in 
addition to the routine work of a Senator, in addition to 
the heavy demands upon his time and strength in the dis- 
charge of his duties as a member of important commit- 
tees, and at a time, too, when he was suflfering an impair- 



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ment of health which would have driven an ordinary man 
into retirement. 

His power and influence, as it seems to me, resulted 
from his convictions, which were those of a man whose 
judgment was based upon the eternal principle of the 
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man — princi- 
ples which found expression in a lofty and intense type of 
patriotism, a profound love of liberty under law, and a 
respect and reverence for that system of law under which 
the liberties of the people of this country have been devel- 
oped and maintained. 

Grounded in these doctrines, it was natural that he 
should adopt the law as his profession, into the study and 
practice of which he carried not only the endowments of 
a talented intellect but an industrious application, coupled 
with a marvelous capacity for labor which recognized 
neither length of hours nor the limitations of physical en- 
durance. The effect of this thorough preparation was 
evidenced always by his clear conception of the issues 
arising in every controversy, his ability to grasp facts rele- 
vant thereto, his knowledge of the law, and his keen sense 
of the moral as well as the legal principles involved. 

Mr. Heyburn entered this body in the fullness of all his 
powers. He was a ripe lawyer, a clear thinker, a skilled, 
forceful debater, ever ready and resourceful, and he never 
advanced a proposition without being well fortified to 
maintain it. He was a splendid advocate, a dangerous 
adversary, but an honorable foeman. He was fearless for 
the right as he understood it, and he early won and held 
to the last a secure place among those men depended 
upon as leaders. 

Among all those with whom I have associated in this 
body no man has impressed me as possessing a more un- 
flinching devotion to the principles he espoused or a finer 
courage in maintaining them. In the best and highest 

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Address of Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont 

sense Weldon B. Heyburn was a fighter who knew no fear. 
To him it mattered not whether he stood alone doing bat- 
tle for his convictions or surrounded by hosts of friends 
and supporters; in either event he delivered himself in 
the full strength of vigorous speech. That he was facing 
a hostile press or antagonizing powerful elements in the 
political life of the Nation made no difference to him. 
He published to the world his unshaken belief, and he 
sought only the approval of a good conscience as a reward. 

As chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elec- 
tions, of which he was an able and an honored member, 
I became more intimately acquainted with him than might 
otherwise have been possible, and that acquaintance 
ripened into a friendship which to me was a great satis- 
faction. My admiration both for his ability and charac- 
ter grew with the months, and my affection for him as a 
man steadily increased as I more and more realized the 
kindness of his heart and the gentleness of his spirit. 

During the last session of the Congress I felt anxious 
because of the disturbing condition of his health, and, 
appreciating his critical situation, pleaded with him to 
abandon all public duties and seek a restoration through 
a long period of relaxation. His reply was characteristic 
of the man. He said he did not desire to live unless he 
could do a man's work; that he preferred to fight the bat- 
tle to the end, whether the contest was long or short, and 
when his work was done to go hence. In this dauntless 
spirit he met all the issues of life, and so it was that week 
after week and month after month he strove mightily, 
although in constant pain and imminent danger, and 
when he had indeed performed a man's work to the verj' 
last he went hence, leaving a record of faithfulness and 
achievement well worthy the emulation of all. 



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Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 

Mr. President: It is with something more than a feel- 
ing of perfunctory interest that I rise to add a brief 
tribute of respect to the memory of Weldon Brinton 
Heyburn, for he was not only an honored colleague, but 
a warm personal friend, for whom I entertained a very 
real affection. 

During the eight years we served together in this Sen- 
ate the work in which we were both engaged brought us 
into close relations and constant association. My respect 
for his many admirable qualities, for his rugged but ex- 
alted conception of public duty, for the simple dignity of 
his everyday bearing, increased as the years of our ac- 
quaintance lengthened. 

He was of Quaker ancestry, and there was something 
very fine and inspiring in the stanch but never demon- 
strative affection in which he held the people of that 
faith. He was born in Delaware County, Pa., in the year 
1852, and was, therefore, at the time of his death, only 
60 years of age, in the full possession of all his mental 
faculties, cultivated by habits of studious application 
and sharpened by the varied experiences of a busy life. 
With an unusually strong and massive body and a mind 
keen, forceful, and untiring, intellectual work, however 
laborious or exacting, was with him always a delight and 
never a burden. Had it not been for the disease which so 
cruelly fastened itself upon him, but to which he never 
bowed in submission or ceased to regard other than in 
the light of an intrusive and impertinent interruption of 
his labors, to be treated with imperious contempt, he 
would have been spared for many years of useful public 
service. 

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Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 

If I were asked to name his most conspicuous charac- 
teristic, I should say it was courage — physical as well as 
moral. Many men, indeed, most men, can upon occasion, 
by a conscious effort of the will, meet a great peril with 
no outward manifestation of fear, but those who habit- 
ually and as a matter of course face every problem, how- 
ever grave or threatening, without a shrinking of the soul 
or of the flesh are rare indeed. Senator Heyburn was 
one of these unusual individuals from whose mental and 
moral equipment the element of cowardice had been 
wholly omitted. He was, moreover, intensely in earnest 
and intensely sincere. There was never about anything 
he said or did the slightest suggestion of the hypocrite 
or the timeserver. During the 10 years of his service in 
this body he met every question in a spirit of perfect can- 
dor and of utter disregard for every consideration save 
the intrinsic merits of the proposition. I firmly believe 
that in all that time it never occurred to him to consider 
the effect which his words or his vote might have upon his 
own political fortunes. Opportunism was no part of his 
political creed. Convinced of the rightfulness of any po- 
sition he assumed, he stood for it unswervingly, without 
the slightest concern for the strength of the opposition 
or the odds against which he contended. If others agreed 
with him, he pursued his way, it is true, with greater sat- 
isfaction, but if nobody agreed with him he pursued his 
way nevertheless. The fact that he stood quite alone dis- 
turbed him not in the least. He was unmoved by the 
fiercest opposition; the semblance of a threat only added 
to the intensity of his contention. The question of the 
popularity or unpopularity of his views never entered 
into his calculations. 

When I search the gallery of my memory for its most 
familiar picture of him, it is always to behold him stand- 
ing in his place, militant and earnest, vigorously pressing 



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some legislation which he believed to be necessary and 
wise, or grimly opposing something which he believed to 
be wrong. Fearless and independent, with his strong, 
sturdy frame, his deep chest, his large, splendidly shaped 
head, he was always a picturesque and interesting figure 
in debate, facing its stormiest phases like some gallant, 
self-reliant sea captain, clear-eyed and unafraid, driving 
by the force of his strong will through the fury of a wind- 
swept sea. 

It was in this same mood that he took up the gage of 
battle with his last unconquerable antagonist, with a per- 
fect knowledge that he was unconquerable. About that 
he never for one moment deceived himself. He under- 
stood clearly the gravity of his own case. But never for 
a single instant did he cry out or beg for quarter. With 
his back to the wall, he fought doggedly, unflinchingly, 
albeit hopelessly, with the same unyielding spirit that he 
would have made a losing fight for a great principle in 
which he believed or as he would have contended, though 
himself naked, with an armor-clad adversary. Day by 
day the poor mortal body weakened, but the heroic soul 
never whined or faltered. One day, as he stood at his 
desk addressing the Senate, he distinctly felt the breaking 
of a small artery in the frontal lobe of the brain. There 
followed an inrush of overwhelming sickness; one of his 
eyes was filled with a quick suffusion of blood; there was 
a momentary hesitation in his speech — long enough for 
those who sat near him to realize that something was 
dreadfully amiss — and then, with a superb effort of his 
wonderful will, he lifted the fainting soul to its task and 
completed his remarks and then walked from the Cham- 
ber without a word to anyone. The next day I saw him, 
and observing the darkened eye and drooping lid, I said: 
"What is the matter. Senator?" Without a trace of 
apprehension in his voice, as though he had been speak- 

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ing of another, he replied : "A small blood vessel has been 
ruptured, forming a clot on the brain in such a way as to 
render one of my eyes temporarily blind. The doctor 
says that sight will return as the clot is gradually ab- 
sorbed." For more than a year, while the inexorable 
fingers of death slowly but surely tightened about his 
heart, he quietly continued to discharge the daily duties 
of his place with a courage whose pathos appealed to 
everyone but himself. But finally the flesh, having grown 
weary of the struggle, gave up the unequal fight, which 
the brave, unconquerable spirit refused to do until the 
very end. 

By those who knew him here he will be sadly missed. 
In the busy hours of the closing days of the session we 
pause only long enough to pay him the simple and inade- 
quate tribute of a few words of affection and appreciation, 
and then resume our efforts to solve the problems of the 
living, leaving the mystery of the dead — if, indeed, there 
be any — to be unraveled in the good time and the good 
way of Him whose mystery it is. And this, if he could 
speak to us, would be what our late colleague would have 
us do, for he who lived by the gospel of work least of all 
men would have the necessary work of the world halted 
for long sorrowing over one whose worldly tasks have 
ended forevermore. 



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Address of Mr. Burton, of Ohio 

Mr. President: Weldon B. Heyburn was a person of 
unique and powerful personality. A man's characteris- 
tics are derived in part from inheritance and in part from 
environment. Senator Heyburn's will power, his strength, 
and independence were such that he must have come of a 
sturdy ancestry, but there were more clearly visible indi- 
cations of the effect of his environment. 

For very nearly 30 years he was a resident of one of the 
newer and more progressive States of the Union, and 
shared the hardships, struggles, and trials which belong 
to the settlers in a new country, where fertile valleys and 
great areas of desert fields and scattered rocks were 
strangely mingled. 

He was always in sympathy with the pioneers; in fact, 
he was one of them; that army always advancing, never 
disbanding, shrinking from no obstacles, marching over 
mountains and valleys, making glad the waste places of 
the earth, digging treasures from the sides of the moun- 
tains, establishing new communities and Commonwealths, 
always building better than they knew and on a grander 
scale than they knew. 

He was faithful to the people of his State. His sym- 
pathies went out for the struggling miner, for the pros- 
pector who went forth to seek new mines in the bowels 
of the earth. 

He was at times seemingly lacking in tolerance toward 
those who took different views with relation to the settle- 
ment of that new country and the utilization of its re- 
sources, a disposition which may be readily explained by 
the fact that he realized the difficulties of his fellow citi- 
zens who were engaged in the development of that new 

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area, and his feelings on their behalf were verj' much 
aroused. No one could know him without recognizing 
the strength of his will, his courage, his independence. 

There has probably never been a manifestation in this 
Chamber of more resolution than that which he showed 
in the last few months of his life, when, with the death 
warrant already written, he was unwilling to turn aside 
for rest, but continued in the performance of his duties 
to the end. It has been said that his courage and his inde- 
pendence were his leading characteristics. He sought no 
favors. He did not desire that thrift which follows fawn- 
ing. His opinions were never the echoes of the voice of 
any leader, however eloquent or logical that voice might 
be. He was no registering machine to write down the 
behests of others. He could not change his opinions to 
conform to the views of those who might furnish him with 
great support in the way of votes. He stood too erect ever 
to bend his ear to the ground and listen to the whispers 
which speak of popularity and popular support. So he 
stood among us as a splendid figure, one who sought to 
serve his country in accordance with his ideals of patriot- 
ism and of independence. He had his faults, but they 
were eclipsed by noble qualities. 

I am painfully conscious, Mr. President, of my inability, 
certainly in a few brief minutes, to do justice to his mem- 
ory, but of this we may all be sure, that though his life 
was cut short he left a noble heritage in his patriotism, 
which his State and the Nation will cherish in the years 
to come. 



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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

Mr. President: Poets and orators have sung the praises 
of men who have bravely died in battle amid the boom- 
ing of cannon, the thrilling strains of martial music, and 
the trampling of armed hosts. Our blood has bounded 
through our veins and we have thrilled at the story of 
some mighty deadly conflict in which had been shown 
the courage and fortitude that lead to death and the 
grave. Poets' flame and orators' fire, however, can not 
portray the sublime courage that controls the man who, 
knowing that if he continues his work, the messenger 
may summon him at any moment to that undiscovered 
bourn whence there is no return, nevertheless, with calm 
fortitude and cheerful demeanor continues to discharge 
the duties which he feels he must perform. This is a 
courage beyond the power of tongue or pen to portray. 

This was the courage displayed by Weldon Brinton 
Heyburn prior to his death. For a year or two his col- 
leagues knew that the dreaded messenger was hovering 
near. He knew it, too, and was listening for the sum- 
mons. He talked of it calmly and without fear. He ac- 
cepted it as something that could not be avoided. He 
wanted to do as much as possible ere the message came, 
not realizing or not heeding that his labors were but beck- 
onings to the end. The messenger came, the battle was 
fought, the last earthly contest was over, and with his 
face to the foe before whom all must fall he went bravely 
beyond the veil. 

In his death this Chamber lost one of its strongest char- 
acters. He was a man of powerful intellect and match- 
less moral courage. He was intellectually pugnacious 



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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

and delighted in controversy. His wide learning, broad 
experience, long training at the bar, of which he was a 
leading member, and his ready command of language 
made him a most formidable antagonist in debate. He 
was calm, ready, and self-possessed, ever serious, often- 
times unconsciously witty, and always earnest and sincere. 

He seemed to disregard utterly public opinion. He 
boldly, even defiantly, expressed views upon great ques- 
tions which were against public sentiment. He assumed 
that he was better able with his study, investigation, and 
knowledge of the situation here to decide what should be 
done than anyone else, and he never shirked responsi- 
bility and boldly stated his position. Local opposition 
and local sentiment were overcome by the power of his 
intellect, dauntless courage, and overmastering spirit. 

In the State convention of his party he boldly de- 
nounced what to him was heresy in its platform, and 
when the legislature met to select his successor, his pres- 
ence dissipated the gathering storm of opposition as the 
rising sun dispels the scattering mists of the morning. 

While he took his position upon all questions boldly 
and expressed his views with candor and positiveness, he 
conceded to his opponents the same honesty of purpose 
and liberty of conscience that he demanded for himself. 
He met all questions fearlessly and maintained his posi- 
tion openly. He could not veil his defense or conceal his 
attacks. His attacks were daring, his defense open. He 
could not be dislodged from a conclusion once reached, 
and it seemed sometimes as if he would not see the error 
of his position. 

He was an intense partisan. His party loyalty was a 
part of his patriotism. When his party spoke through 
its majority he bowed to its decree, even if he did not 
agree with its judgment. An intense partisan himself, he 
respected partisanship in others. That parties are neces- 

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sary to make representative government a success he 
strongly believed. If some declaration in his party plat- 
form did not meet with his approval he nevertheless re- 
mained with the party, believing that in unity there is suc- 
cess, in dissension defeat. He sought to work out differ- 
ences within the party by reversing its decrees within 
itself rather than through defeat. 

While not in harmony with the sentiment of the day, 
no man was more intensely patriotic, no man was more 
earnestly devoted to the welfare of the people and his 
Government than Weldon Brinton Heyburn. Denounc- 
ing mercilessly what he considered the heresies of the 
day, he was just as confident that what he advocated was 
for the people's welfare as the most ardent advocate of 
other policies and methods. If we did not approve his 
position, we were forced to admire the courage, sincerity, 
and ability with which he maintained it. He was of in- 
corruptible honesty, and the people's good was his sole 
aim. Better far a man like this in legislative halls, though 
mistaken, than the cowardly sycophant sometimes right. 

With all his domineering, masterful, combative disposi- 
tion there was a sweeter nature that " peeped out ever 
and anon," all the brighter because of the rough, rugged 
surroundings. Oftentimes have I seen him in committee 
apparently taking a determined stand against some meas- 
ure in which a fellow member was interested, and after 
expressing his views in his usual vigorous fashion, say, 
"But I will not carry my opposition further; I simply 
wanted to make my position clear." Within his strong, 
rugged nature there was a heart as gentle and tender as a 
child's. 

He did not depend upon his abilities alone while a 
Member of this body. He was a hard worker both in 
committee and on the floor of the Senate. He attended 
the meetings of the Senate very regularly and followed 



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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

its proceedings with great care. He was always at com- 
mittee meetings and took an active part in their delibera- 
tions, and the work of the committees and subcommittees 
of which he was chairman was looked after with the 
greatest fidelity and marked ability. An examination of 
the Congressional Index will show the amazing range of 
his activities and the tremendous labor he must have put 
forth. 

The life of a Senator who conscientiously discharges the 
duties devolving upon him as the representative of his 
State and Nation is a most exacting one. It requires close 
study, long hours, and hard work. In addition to the gen- 
eral legislative work, Senators from the West have many 
matters of local concern that require much time, study, 
and preparation. And so it was that the burdens upon 
Mr. Heyburn were very great; they were too much even 
for his great mental and physical strength, and his col- 
leagues saw the end coming long before it came. He lit- 
erally worked himself to death for his State and Nation. 

What a brave fight he made! With the same dauntless 
courage with which he faced the problems of his legis- 
lative career he faced the grim reaper. By the very force 
of his indomitable will he seemed to stay death's hand. 
Face to face he yielded inch by inch, but was finally over- 
come by the foe that knows no defeat. 

Mr. President, no knight in olden times ever faced death 
in defense of his lady love more calmly, no soldier ever 
marched more courageously to battle, no martyr ever 
faced the stake with greater heroism than did this man 
meet the summons of the grim reaper to the voyage 
whither all must go; whence none return. Brave in life's 
battles, bravely he died. Peace to his ashes, joy to his 
soul. 



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Address of Mr. Root, of New York 

Mr. President: No one could have sat in this Chamber 
as the colleague of Senator Heyburn without receiving 
and retaining a deep impression of a very strong and dis- 
tinctively individual character. He merited the descrip- 
tion by which the Norse sagas so often carried a meaning 
of high praise when they declared one to be " not an 
everyday man." Even the traditional attitude and senti- 
ment of formal eulogy can not make it natural or suitable 
to couple his memorj' with perfunctorj' expression. 

He had a strong and active intelligence, well informed, 
thoroughly trained, utilized through enormous and untir- 
ing industry, and made effective through unusual facility 
of expression. His work as chairman of the Joint Com- 
mittee on the Revision of the Laws was painstaking, accu- 
rate, and of permanent value. His attention to the busi- 
ness of the Senate was unremitting, and he was always 
watchful and alert to detect bad measures and prevent 
their passage, while his own advocacy of legislation was 
always upon the ground of what he believed to be the 
public advantage. The wide range of his interest in pub- 
lic affairs included every department of government, and 
in every direction he made valuable and effective contri- 
butions to our discussions. His great power was chiefly 
derived from his exceptional qualities of character. I 
think the underlying quality on which all the others rested 
was a capacity for loyal self-devotion to ideals. For 
whatever cause he espoused he was instinctively and un- 
hesitatingly ready to fight a I'outrance, and to the parti- 
sanship of his cause he brought inflexible resolution and 
clear, high courage. His face once set, he never turned 



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Address of Mr. Root, of New York 



to the right hand or to the left; he never wavered or hesi- 
tated or questioned or doubted. His conclusions were 
convictions. Throughout his arguments, always dignified 
and courteous and full of relevant and cogent matter, 
there sounded always the suggestion of a battle cry. He 
would have gone to the stake singing triumphal hymns. 
He would have led forlorn hopes. He would have sought 
death in battle with supreme joy. As became his char- 
acter, he had a great capacity for wrath. His temper was 
sudden, easily moved, swift to expression. In conflict it 
would flare out at times like some great furnace, seen 
from afar, blazing for an instant on the night. But there 
never was a sweeter temper. He was gentle and kindly 
and considerate toward all the world. He had no shade 
of the morose or sullen, of spite or revengefulness. He 
harbored no resentments. He had ineradicable preju- 
dices, but no hatreds. He had many conflicts, but no en- 
mities, and I doubt if he had any real enemies. Certainly 
he had none here. His ingenuous sincerity, the whole- 
heartedness of his devotion to the truth as he felt it, the 
transparent unselfishness of his motives, the kindliness of 
his judgments, inspired us all with respect and admiration 
for his character. His verj' foibles endeared him to us. 
We had affection for him. We truly grieve for his un- 
timely death, and it is a sad satisfaction to do honor to 
his memory. 



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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 

Mr. President: I have been requested by the senior 
Senator from Idaho to say something on this occasion, 
because he thought that I understood the late Senator 
Heyburn somewhat better than did my brother Senators 
from the South, and I have accepted the trust and shall 
try to be just to his memory. 

I came to this body prejudiced against him because of 
my preconceived idea that he was hostile in sentiment 
toward the people of my section of the Union; and some 
of his remarks and votes on certain questions shortly 
after my arrival here were calculated to make me believe 
that the general impression concerning his character in 
this respect was correct; but for more than a year before 
his death I had become satisfied that this view was based 
on a wrong conception of his feelings. 

Senator Heyburn was not a hater of the southern peo- 
ple, and no one here was more ready than he to vote for 
measures to relieve their necessities from the Government 
purse when an emergency arose with which they were 
unable to cope unaided and which called for immediate 
relief. 

True, he wished to be satisfied that the necessity ex- 
isted, but it was his habit to always insist on a proper 
explanation for a demand for expenditures of public 
money for unusual purposes. 

But when the reason for it was made clear to his mind 
he cheerfully and ungrudgingly voted for all that was 
asked for the relief of the southern people. 

He always objected to the expenditure of public money 
for the purpose of commemorating in any way the valor 



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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 

of Confederate soldiers or sailors or to the return of cap- 
tured Confederate flags, and even to the return of cap- 
tured bonds that had been issued during the Civil War 
by any of the States composing the Southern Confed- 
eracy; and this was why he acquired the reputation of 
being hostile to the South, a reputation that has outlived 
his life. 

But his course in these matters was not due to any dis- 
like of the southern people as such, but to his intense con- 
viction not only that the cause for which they fought was 
wrong but that he could not vote for such measures with- 
out seeming to condone to some extent the action of the 
South in seceding from the Federal Union. 

In my opinion his view of those questions was too nar- 
row and his judgment warped by his feelings, and I think 
he could have well afforded to look at them from the 
standpoint of others who were just as decided in their 
convictions of the wrong of secession as himself, but who 
considered that the time had come when they could show 
this consideration to their southern brethren, now as 
loyal citizens of a common country as themselves, with- 
out in the slightest degree detracting from their own 
sense of loyalty to the cause of the Union during the 
Civil War. 

But Senator Heyburn thought otherwise as regarded 
himself, and it was his own conclusion that always con- 
trolled his individual action. 

I have heard him declare on the floor of the Senate that 
his feeling was not in any sense personal, not dictated by 
dislike of southerners, but by dislike of the cause for 
which they fought, and that he fully recognized the sin- 
cerity of their position in that regard; and I am sure that 
he spoke his true sentiments, for he was too honest and 
courageous to speak otherwise. 



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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 

I feel that on this question I have been just to Senator 
Heyburn, and as a southerner and ex-Confederate soldier 
I wish to go on record as protesting against what I con- 
sider to be a general misconception of his character in this 
regard — a misconception shared by myself until I had 
opportunities for better understanding him. 

And now that he is dead I am glad to be able to pay 
tribute to some characteristics of Senator Heyburn that I 
unreservedly admired and for which I gave him unstinted 
credit while he was alive. 

In my experience in tliis body I have not met a Member 
who, in my opinion, felt a stronger obligation resting on 
him to thoroughly inform himself on measures before he 
voted on them. 

I became first impressed with his desire for investiga- 
tion through my observation of him as a member of the 
Committee on Public Lands, in which we served together; 
but it seemed almost impossible for a measure to come 
before the Senate that his alert and inquiring mind did 
not prompt him to take part in its consideration. 

I believe that in this he overtaxed himself, for I am con- 
vinced that no Senator can fully investigate all questions, 
even those of importance, without impairment of his 
physical health; but necessarily he must trust in some 
matters to the investigation of the committees having 
them directly in charge. 

I believe that Senator Heyburn's habit in this regard 
hastened his end. 

But he never spared himself while contending for what 
he thought was right or against what he thought was 
wrong. 

I often watched him last year, continuing to debate 
while scarcely able to stand, fearing that he would fall 
and die in the midst of his argument, yet thinking it quite 



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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 

possible that he would prefer to meet death in that par- 
ticular way. 

I admired him because he was always true to his con- 
victions — a quality possessed by him in as high a degree 
as by any Member of this body. 

I well remember that in our last conversation, just 
before the close of the last session, when I made some 
allusion to this trait of his character, he answered with a 
look and emphasis that left no doubt in my mind of his 
sincerity : 

Senator, when the time comes that I can't vote my convictions 
in the United States Senate, I am ready to quit it forever. 

I admired him for his intense Americanism, his pride 
in the greatness of his country, and his zealous desire to 
maintain and increase her greatness. 

These were the qualities of Senator Heyburn that com- 
manded my respect — honesty, industry, conscientiousness, 
courage, and patriotism — qualities which I trust that we 
who have survived him may always wish to emulate. 



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Address of Mr. Myers, of Montana 

Mr. President: It is a melancholy pleasure for me upon 
this sad occasion to say a few words of tribute and praise 
to the sturdy worth and many good qualities of our de- 
parted associate, Senator Heyburn, and to lay a wreath 
of kindly remembrance at the shrine of his memory. I 
said many good words of him during my acquaintance 
with him in the course of his lifetime, and now it is with 
heartfelt reverence and genuine esteem that I pause in 
the busy course of life to revere his memory with some 
words of praise. 

Although I live in a State adjoining the State of Senator 
Heyburn's last residence, I never knew him personally 
until I entered this body and here met him. When I met 
him here his greeting to me was most kindly and cordial, 
and instantly impressed me as coming from a good- 
hearted man of kindly instincts. My relations with him 
during the remainder of his life were most cordial and 
pleasant, and to me will ever be a pleasant memory. Be- 
neath a rugged exterior he possessed a sublime devotion 
to duty, a heroic adherence to principle, a heart as warm 
as the gentle sunshine of spring, and a disposition as ten- 
der as the first blossoms of the flower garden. 

During our entire acquaintance he was always most 
kindly and cordial to me. In many ways and upon a 
number of occasions he was helpful to me. I enjoyed 
courtesies at his hands that were beneficial to me and 
which I much appreciated. In all of our relations I found 
him ever of a helpful disposition. I never approached 
him in any matter but what he evinced a strong desire to 
be helpful to me. When he could not fully agree with 



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Address of Mr. Myers, of Montana 



me he was not disposed to be obstructive, but carefully 
explained his views and always suggested from his re- 
sourceful mind some course that would obviate his objec- 
tions and at the same time answer my purposes. He 
ever extended a helping hand to assist me over the rocky 
obstacles of legislative life, and many beneficial ideas I 
owe to his helpful suggestions. To me all of these things 
betokened a lovable disposition. 

Senator Heyburn was as fearless a man as I ever knew. 
His fearlessness always elicited my unbounded admira- 
tion. I believe he was absolutely fearless — as much so as 
any man could be. He seemed to take no reckoning of 
consequences. He stood absolutely firm for what he be- 
lieved to be right, utterly regardless of what the conse- 
quences might be to him politically or otherwise. I do 
not believe the history of this country has revealed in 
public life a more fearless character than he. He cared 
nothing for public opinion. He cared nothing for enmi- 
ties, opposition, criticism, or stricture. Evidently he had 
but one guide, and that was the right. I do not believe 
it would be possible for any human being to adhere more 
strictly to his ideas of the right. In this I believe his 
career sets an opportune and a beneficial example to the 
public men of the day and to the youth of our land. He 
knew neither friend nor foe in his devotion to right. His 
adherence to the right as he saw it was as immovable as 
the everlasting mountains, as solid as the Rock of Ages. 
His frankness, too, was unusual. He never hesitated to 
express himself on any subject that concerned him, his 
constituents, or the people of this countrj'. So prominent 
were these splendid qualities in his character that they 
stand in bold relief to the average make-up of mankind 
and tower above that average like the lofty mountain 
peak, that pierces the skies, towers above the hills. 



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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 

Men of the character of Senator Heyburn are needed 
in this world. They are the men who accomplish things. 
They are the men who stand for ideals. They are the 
men who defend to the last what they believe to be right 
and never know what it is to retreat. We shall miss him 
here. His constituents will miss him. The world will 
miss him. 



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Address of Mr. Pomerene, of Ohio 

Mr. President: I would be doing violence to my feel- 
ings if I were to sit in silence and fail to add a word to 
the tributes to our departed friend. It was a privilege to 
have known him. His character was as rugged as the 
mountains of his adopted State. The first six months I 
was a Member of the Senate my acquaintance with him 
was only casual. I had seen him upon the floor engaged 
in the debates and business of the Senate; I witnessed his 
combativeness, and I confess I did not then quite under- 
stand him; but it fell to my lot to be associated with him 
closely for a number of weeks in some important com- 
mittee work, and I then, for the first time, learned to know 
the real Senator Heybirn as he was known to his family 
and his most intimate friends. During that time I saw 
him and labored with him every hour of the day. 

He perhaps would impress one as being a man of strong 
biases, and he was; but beyond that, and more than that, it 
seemed to me that the ruling passion in his work was to 
seek and to know the truth. During that investigation in 
a distant city, if you had heard him examine the witnesses, 
who perhaps had taken one side or the other of the con- 
troversy, and you were to witness the force and directness 
of his questions, it would occur to you that he was there in 
a partisan capacity, rather than as a judge; but if this ele- 
ment seemed to appear upon the surface, and you fol- 
lowed him through the entire course of the examination, 
you would find that he was eager to know the truth and 
the truth only. 

His was one of those peculiar minds that always hewed 
to the line and was willing to let the chips fall where they 
might. 

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Mr. President, I can not conceive of Senator Heyburn 
bending to every breeze. He always stood foursquare to 
all the winds that blew. He thought his thoughts and 
spoke his own words, not other people's. He believed 
that he was here in this Chamber commissioned to do a 
certain work. He performed it according to the light that 
was given to him. It was not necessary that he get his ear 
to the ground in order that he might know what his own 
views were or how he should vote. No one who ever 
knew Senator Heyburn would charge him with that char- 
acteristic. 

Mr. President, in the time I was thus intimately asso- 
ciated with him 1 learned to love him. I know I was his 
friend, and I believe that he was mine. I remember after 
he was stricken I stepped up to him one day and tried to 
persuade him to leave the Chamber, to go and seek the 
rest he needed; but no, he would not go. He felt that if 
his time had come there was no better place to pass 
away than at the post of duty. 

Mr. President, he was a man of high ideals. He was an 
intellectual giant; he had the genius of industry; he was 
the peer of any man in the Senate. He was one of those 
men of whom Kipling wrote — 

He walked with kings, nor lost the common touch. 

I shall always remember him with a deep feeling of 
affection, knowing that when he passed away we lost a 
truly patriotic citizen and Senator. Peace to his ashes. 



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Address of Mr. Brady, of Idaho 

Mr. President: In the death of Weldon Brinton Hey- 
BURN the State of Idaho has lost a distinguished citizen 
and representative and the Nation a brilliant and useful 
legislator. I wish that it were in my power to speak of 
him on this occasion from the intimate knowledge which 
some of you possess by reason of your long association 
with him in this Chamber. It was my privilege, however, 
to know him well through years of pleasant association, 
incident to service in the ranks of the same political 
part}', in the upbuilding of our State and through the 
record of his achievements in the United States Senate. 

I knew him as a citizen, as a party leader, and as a 
representative of a sovereign State. He was a large virile 
figure in the political and governmental activities of his 
time, a man whose great talents were early appreciated 
by the party leaders and the people of Idaho. 

From the time he became a resident of Idaho until his 
death he played an important part in the history of the 
State. The brilliant legal powers which he possessed 
gained for him an early recognition, and his attainments 
in his profession commanded admiration wherever he 
practiced, whether in the State and supreme courts of 
the Northwest, in the United States district and circuit 
courts, or in the Supreme Court of the United States. 

When the Territory of Idaho was about to hold its con- 
stitutional convention Mr. Heyburn was chosen a dele- 
gate, and his colleagues, recognizing his legal attain- 
ments, made him chairman of the committee on the 
judiciary. 

It was, however, in the party campaigns and political 
struggles that I came to know him in a more intimate and 

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Memorial Addresses : Senator Heyburn 

personal way and to recognize his sterling worth in both 
private and public life. 

During the early years of his first term I watched his 
growth with the keenest pleasure. It was a source of 
great satisfaction to note how his personality became the 
moving force in a great and brilliant senatorial career. 

These memories of my pleasant association with him 
come back to me with such clearness that it is difficult for 
me to realize that he has passed away. Knowing him as 
I did, and being so familiar with the great record he 
made in this body, I appreciate the responsibility of being 
his successor. He set a standard of legislative workman- 
ship which few have excelled, and I am glad to be privi- 
leged to pay tribute to his great accomplishments. 

I could not agree with him upon all public questions, 
nor could many of you, yet, however keenly we may have 
felt his opposition, we recognized that his attitude was 
taken conscientiously. The calm certainty with which he 
followed his own ideas and the clear thought with which 
he reflected upon current problems made him a man of 
great force. Neither in this Chamber nor in the country 
at large was there ever any uncertainty as to his position 
upon great public questions. He stood for his political 
convictions even if he stood alone. A stanch supporter 
of government and a loyal party man withal, he did not 
hesitate to stand apart from the majority opinion. 

He had an uncommon power to resist those persuasions 
which are purely personal or partisan and to hold his own 
opinions undaunted by the disagreements or the misun- 
derstandings of those who opposed him. He fought hard, 
sometimes relentlessly hard, but he was as relentless in 
putting aside the possible effect of his course upon his 
own political fortunes as he was persistent in combating 
those who for the moment stood against him. 



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Address of Mr. Brady, of Idaho 



Yet it can be truly said that no bitterness bred of debate 
ever followed him to his home. Those who knew him out 
of the storm of debate or in the quiet of his own home 
knew that warm kindness and generous tolerance marked 
his every discussion. He was away from the battle field, 
his armor was off, he was no longer the fighter, but merely 
the gentle, considerate man. 

To-day, when political beliefs are numerous and party 
lines confused, when the functions and methods of govern- 
ment are uncertain and formative, it requires a large 
catholicity of mind to appreciate fully the service of all 
those who play a vigorous part. More difficult still is it to 
estimate fairly those whose function it has been to ap- 
proach public questions from a special angle. The radi- 
cal who stands for a new truth that other men do not see 
and the conservative who defends a time-honored belief 
from which other men have departed are rarely under- 
stood by the popular mind. Yet these two opposing 
minds, by their persistent, honest effort, form a balance 
which is essential to the deliberations of this legislative 
body, which is reflected in the thought of the American 
people. Only when all men can see the whole truth can 
we do without these men of extreme view, and that time 
does not seem destined to come. 

For myself I may say that I am committed to progres- 
sive policies, but I can not and do not set aside my appre- 
ciation and respect for those men who have been and are 
striving to preserve the fundamental principles of our 
governmental structure. Among the stanchest defenders 
of conservative Republicanism was Weldon Brinton Hey- 
BURN. Who is there among those who have been his col- 
leagues in the years of his membership here that can fail 
to comprehend his earnest interest in representative gov- 
ernment and constitutional procedure? 



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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 

Senator Heyburn was not undemocratic in the true 
sense of the word. He was always concerned with the 
good of the people of the State and Nation. He stood 
upon the side of those hard-working men and women who 
are trj'ing to build a great American Commonwealth, the 
State of Idaho. He was responsible for many laws touch- 
ing the farming, mining, and business interests of the 
West. He stood for the true conservation of the people's 
interests and for the policies which conserve our natural 
resources and popular rights in the gifts of nature, and 
favored proper administration of all laws without impos- 
ing any undue burden upon those men of the pioneer 
spirit, who are responsible for the turning of the unin- 
habited places into homesteads for American man and 
woman. 

He has stood by the homesteader as against the specula- 
tive exploiter of lands; he has been with the irrigationist, 
eagerly seeking the opportunity of tilling the soil that only 
waits for water, as against the "sleeper" and the land 
speculator, who want water without effort, not that they 
may reap the farm products, but that they may reap from 
land values which they have not helped to create. As he 
served the people of the State conscientiously, so he served 
the Nation. 

The democratic feeling of our leaders is known by the 
consideration they give to their fellow men in the bills 
they make into laws rather than by any words they may 
coin to gain political favor. After years of failure to leg- 
islate, his persistent energy and comprehensive mind gave 
the American people the first law, with administrative 
restrictions, to guarantee that sooner or later every person 
in the United States will be completely protected against 
adulterated foods and drugs. Only a few days ago Dr. 
Wiley, in a public address at Boise, declared that the State 
of Idaho should erect a monument to Senator Heyburn 



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Address of Mr. Brady, of Idaho 



for the great good he had done in giving the Nation such 
splendid pure-food legislation. No man can rear a 
greater monument as an evidence of his desire to protect 
the masses than Senator Heyburn has built for himself in 
his work as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, 
which had charge of the pure-food legislation of the 
Senate. 

That he was not in favor of the devices for popular par- 
ticipation in government which some of us advocate is not 
proof positive that he lacked faith in the rank and file of 
men. He believed in the right of men to govern them- 
selves, but he was convinced that in the present circum- 
stances of life conditions do not guarantee them sufficient 
knowledge and experience to enable them to participate 
successfully in the details of legislative, administrative, 
and judicial decision. The confidence that he had in his 
own sense of duty and the convictions of his own mag- 
nificent mind bred no distrust in delegated power, and he 
generously extended the same faith to other political 
leaders. 

He failed to appreciate those great popular ideas of 
initiative government which the twentieth century has 
contributed to American political life. His feeling for 
other men and women was of the old-fashioned sort, 
which showed a courteous consideration by fighting im- 
personally for right and against wrong. A principle cov- 
ered all humanity with him. 

He was a man of massive mind. A constitutional law- 
yer of unusual ability, steeped in the spirit of the constitu- 
tional principles, his political beliefs were of the older 
school. He never at any time became a reactionary; he 
had always been a constitutional devotee. 

No great and complicated question of legislation ever 
came up in this body but he had the mind to grasp its ap- 
plication, the tireless energy to pursue its details, and the 



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endurance to watch it through every turn of debate. The 
history of legislative debate during the past 10 years in 
this Chamber can not be separated from the record of his 
participation in it. The principles he advocated were car- 
ried into effect in the bill dealing with pure foods and 
drugs. Twice his vote delivered the Territories of Ari- 
zona and New Mexico from the jeopardy of joint State- 
hood. He it was who guided the Philippine tariff laws 
through the committee and on the floor. To him it was 
given to oppose the enactment of the reciprocity treaty 
with Canada. He was in active charge of the Joint Com- 
mittee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, 
completing as his special part the penal code and the first 
sixteen chapters of the judiciary, which was adopted by 
Congress. 

He worked with the same tireless energy whether the 
problem was of great or minor importance, and strove 
always to a conscientious disposition of any question that 
came before him, regardless of its nature. 

It is a privilege, indeed, to speak these personal views of 
a man in whom my State took such great pride. In the 
hush of sharp and incisive debate which death puts upon 
this Chamber, it is a privilege to pay just measure and 
tribute to a great man who has wrought among us so 
vigorously that we can not even now gain a full view of 
his character and works. 

He was one great man who regarded his prerogatives as 
a public trust, a chosen man who used in full sense of duty 
the bestowal of power which came to his hand, a man of 
public spirit and great mental caliber, of inexhaustible 
energy, of austere conscience, of dauntless courage. Such 
a man was Weldon Brinton Heyburn. 



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Proceedings in the House of Representatives 

Monday, December 2, 1912. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its 
clerks, announced that the Senate has heard with pro- 
found sorrow the announcement of the death of the Hon. 
Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State 
of Idaho. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
deceased. 

Mr. Cannon. Mr. Speaker, I move you, sir, that out of 
regard for the memory of the late Vice President, James 
Schoolcraft Sherman, and the memorj' of the Members of 
this House and of the Senate who have departed this life 
since the adjournment of the last session of Congress this 
House do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 1 o'clock 
and 8 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to- 
morrow, Tuesday, December 3, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon. 



Wednesday, December 4, 1912. 
Mr. French. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
tion and move its adoption. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 730 

Resolved, That the House of Representatives has heard with 
profound sorrow of the deatli of the Hon. Weldon Brinton Hey- 
burn, late a Senator from the State of Idaho. 

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Resolved, That the Clerk be directed to communicate these reso- 
lutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of 
the deceased Senator. 

The question was taken, and the resolution was unani- 
mously agreed to. 

Thursday January 23, 1913. 

Mr. French. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
the present consideration of the order which I send to the 
desk and ask to have read. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Ordered, That Sunday, the 23d day of February, 1913, be set 
apart for addresses on the life, character, and public services of 
Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State of 
Idaho. 

The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the order. 
The order was agreed to. 



Sunday, February 23. 1913. 
The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the 
end of the earth will I cry unto Thee when my heart is 
overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. 
For Thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower 
from the enenij'. I will abide in Thy tabernacle forever; 
I will trust in the covert of Thy wings. 

From time immemorial, God our Father, men's 
hearts have turned instinctively to Thee in great crises 
for help, in sorrow and grief for comfort, in every con- 



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tingency for inspiration and guidance; so our hearts turn 
to Thee as we assemble in memory of men who by faith- 
ful servnce in State and Nation gained for themselves the 
respect and confidence of the people, wrought well among 
us, left the impress of their personality upon our minds, 
and made a place for themselves in our hearts which 
time nor space can erase. " For we know that if our 
earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a 
building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal 
in the heavens." 

" We leave this and straightway enter another palace 
of the King more grand and beautiful." 

We mourn their going, but not without hope. We are 
cast down but not overwhelmed, dismayed but not 
confounded. 

For the love of God is broader 

Than the measures of man's mind. 

And the heart of the Eternal 
Is most wonderfully kind. 

Enter Thou, O God our Father, into the desolate homes 
and bind up the bruised and broken hearts with the oil 
of Thy love, that they may look through their tears to the 
rainbow of hope and follow on without fear and doubting 
into that realm where all mysteries shall be solved, all 
sorrows melted into joy, soul touch soul in an everlasting 
communion, and eons of praise we will ever give to Thee, 
in the spirit of the Lord Christ. Amen. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the order in rela- 
tion to the late Senator Heyburn. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

On motion of Mr. French, by unanimous consent. 
Ordered, That Sunday, February 23, 1913, be set apart for ad- 
dresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. Wel- 
DON Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State of Idaho. 



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Mr. French. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
tion. 
The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 863 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended in 
order that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory 
of Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State 
of Idaho. 

Resolved, That as a special mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public career 
the House, at the conclusion of these memorial exercises to-day, 
shall stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
family of the deceased. 

The resolution was unanimously agreed to. 



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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 

Mr. Speaker: It is with mingled emotions that I partici- 
pate in the memorial exercises that to-day have brought 
us together. I participate as a friend of many years of 
him whom we recall at this hour, and I view the one 
whose memory we cherish not only as a friend but as a 
citizen of the State that he represented with such distin- 
guished ability and as a modest colaborer in many of the 
undertakings in which he gave so largely of his life and 
genius. 

Ordinarily we have but passing interest in the personal 
details of the lives of men. They were all born; they all 
have had experiences somewhat in common ; they all have 
died, or must meet that end. Here and there a man 
stands out, however, so conspicuously as a national char- 
acter that we crave to look beyond. To say that he was 
born, that he lived and died, tells nothing. To recall the 
achievements of his life tells not enough. We crave to 
know something of the personal side of the life that did 
great things, that we may measure better the achieve- 
ments attained, that we may discern more clearly the pur- 
pose and impulses that inspired action, and that we may 
have at once a truer measure of the causes that have con- 
tributed to events that are momentous. 

A LIFE SKETCH 

In speaking of the life and service of Senator Heyburn 
I shall try to give such personal facts connected with his 
life as had bearing upon the problems that he had to meet 
and the way in which he met them. 

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Weldon Brinton Heyburn was born May 23, 1852, in 
Delaware County, Pa., at the homestead of his paternal 
ancestors — the home of his great-grandfather, his grand- 
father, and his father. He was of English ancestry on 
both sides of his family. His mother was Sarah Gilpin, 
the daughter of John Dickinson Gilpin, the twentieth gen- 
eration in direct descent from Sir Richard de Gilpin, who 
was knighted by King John in 1206, and which line in- 
cludes the Washington and West families in England and 
America. He was of Quaker ancestry on both sides of his 
family. 

His mother was a Puritan of the Puritans, who never 
failed to stand for truth or righteousness, and who never 
consented to the slightest infringement of the moral law. 
She was liberally educated, widely read, and kept up her 
reading and study throughout her life. At the age of 80 
years she recited long poems and discussed questions of 
history, science, and art with a clear mind. 

The Senator inherited mental and physical traits from 
both parents. He received an academic education in the 
public schools and under private tutors. 

He spent his boyhood upon his father's farms and was 
associated in business with his father, John Brinton Hey- 
burn, who was a large landowner in Chester and Dela- 
ware Counties, Pa., and who, during the latter part of his 
life, was chairman of the board of county commissioners 
of Delaware County. 

Mr. Heyburn was admitted to the bar in the spring of 
1876, and immediately entered upon the work of his pro- 
fession. After practicing law for more than two years in 
Pennsylvania he heeded the call of the West, and moved 
to Leadville, Colo., where he engaged in practice from 
1878 until 1882. Upon the development of the mining in- 
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1883, he went to the Coeur d'Alene mining country in 
Shoshone County, where he resumed the practice of law. 

He participated actively in the conversion of the Terri- 
tory into the State of Idaho, was a member of the consti- 
tutional convention, and chairman of the judiciarj' com- 
mittee of that body. He was a member of the Republican 
national conventions of 1888, 1892, 1900, and 1904, and 
was a member of the Republican national committee from 
1904 to 1908. 

In 1898 Mr. Heyburn was unanimously nominated as the 
Republican candidate for Congress, but was defeated by 
the combined Democrat, Populist, and free-silver ad- 
herents. 

He married Gheretein Yeatman, daughter of John 
Marshall and Lavinia Passmore Yeatman, of Chester 
County, Pa. 

In 1903 Mr. Heyburn was elected to the United States 
Senate and continued a Member of that body until his 
death, on October 17, 1912. 

PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICES 

The bare recital of events such as I have enumerated 
tell only part, and that but vaguely, of the life work of 
Senator Heyburn. 

As a lawyer his greatest successes came after he located 
in Idaho. He was strong, forceful, and abounding in re- 
source, a tireless worker, and though younger than Judge 
Claggett, Frank Ganahl, Albert Hagan, Judge McBride, 
and Judge Mayhew, who made the bar of Shoshone 
County in those early days so conspicuous in strength and 
ability, it was but a short time before the late Senator 
forced himself into the front rank with those distinguished 
men and was able to cope with them, singly or in groups, 
as frequently happened, most successfully. 



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During the period of his actual practice in the Coeur 
d'AIene region he was identified on one side or the other 
with all the important mining litigation and was unusually 
successful. In 1900 he edited and published Idaho Laws 
and Decisions, Annotated and Digested. 

Aside from Senator Heyburn's influence upon mining 
law and his remarkable success as a practitioner, prob- 
ably the most notable work that he performed prior to his 
entrance into the Senate was as a member of the constitu- 
tional convention of the State of Idaho in 1889. That was 
a convention made up of men of unusual abilitj'. It in- 
cluded such men as William H. Claggett, one of the most 
notable characters of the Northwest; William J. McCon- 
nell, twice governor of Idaho and one time Senator of 
the United States; James H. Realty, later a United States 
district judge for nearly 20 years; numerous men who 
have performed distinguished public services, and other 
men of great ability who have preferred private life. 

Mr. Claggett was president of the constitutional conven- 
tion and Mr. Heyburn was chairman of the committee 
on judiciary, and from the advantage of this position and 
from his own great ability he shaped in large degree the 
fundamental law of the Commonwealth of Idaho. 

AS senator 

Upon entering the Senate March 4, 1903, he was assigned 
to the chairmanship of the Committee on Manufactures, 
which chairmanship he held continuously. He was also 
a niember of the Committees on Finance, Philippines, 
Conservation, Immigration, Mines and Mining, Privileges 
and Elections, Public Buildings and Grounds, and Public 
Lands. 

Amid his new responsibilities Senator Heyburn was 
most industrious, as was his habit of life, and he expressed 
his ideas upon a great variety of subject matters that the 

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Senate was called upon to consider, and participated in 
debate to a far greater extent than is usual among Mem- 
bers of the Senate. Few men were his equal in the mat- 
ter of information upon so wide a variety of subjects, and 
few men have had so large a part in the shaping and 
determining of legislation touching great problems. 

As a member of the Committee on the Philippines he 
drew and reported the Philippine tariff bill which is the 
present law. 

On the statehood question, involving the admission of 
Arizona and New Mexico, Senator Heyburn stood for 
separate statehood, and on two occasions his influence 
defined the policy of the Senate that the States should be 
admitted separately and not as one. 

On the long and short haul clause of the act looking to 
the regulation of transportation rates. Senator Heyburn 
vigorously contended that no greater charge should be 
made for a short haul than for a long one. 

He was made chairman of the joint committee of the 
two Houses of Congress to revise and codify the laws of 
the United States. From this committee he reported and 
succeeded in passing, first, the Criminal Code of the 
United States and, second, the Judiciary Title, both of 
which are now in force. 

Mr. Heyburn opposed the Canadian reciprocity treaty. 

He stood for liberal pensions for Union soldiers. 

He opposed the making of what were termed peace 
treaties with Great Britain and France, on the broad prin- 
ciples expressed by President Washington against form- 
ing entangling alliances with other nations. 

He consistently stood for the protective tariff policy of 
the Republican Partj% insisting upon tariff duties that 
would give a margin of protection sufficient to insure the 
markets of our own countrj' to our own people and the 



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employment of labor at better wages and under better 
conditions than those that prevail abroad. 

Probably, however, the work that Senator Heyburn per- 
formed that will stand out as a monument to him more 
distinctly than any other specific work was that in behalf 
of the pure food and drug act of 1906. 

To have been a Member of Congress and to have sup- 
ported the measure is credit enough to ascribe to most 
Members of either House or Senate. Senator Heyburn's 
relation to the bill was far more responsible than that. 
Mindful of the splendid efforts put forth by able and 
earnest men and women in private and public life, and 
manifested in unusual degree by several Members of the 
House of Representatives, I think I do not overestimate 
the work accomplished by Senator Heyburn when I say 
that if it had not been for his services the measure would 
not have passed the Senate of the United States at the time 
that it did, and while public sentiment was crystallizing in 
favor of the legislation, it is not likely that the measure 
would have been passed until possibly a year or two years 
of time had elapsed, within which the public conscience 
would have been more definitely aroused upon the impor- 
tance of the legislation. 

The legislation long had been pending and no conclu- 
sion had been reached. Senator Heyburn pressed the 
measure during the Fifty-eighth Congress, but was unable 
to obtain a final vote. During the interval between the 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses Senator Heyburn 
gave careful consideration to the question and completely 
revised the measure which had been formerly proposed 
eliminating the principles of the establishment of stand- 
ards by legislation, as well as the provisions for the estab- 
lishment of a board to fix arbitrary standards that would 
be binding upon the courts, leaving the violation of the 
general rules laid down in the act to be determined by the 

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courts. These principles were carried through and 
adopted in the final passage of the bill which he drew and 
which became a law, and which the country over is con- 
ceded to be one of the most important pieces of legislation 
ever enacted by Congress. 

This it was that led Dr. Harvey W. Wiley to say in com- 
menting upon the author of the measure : 

I want to see the State of Idaho erect a monument to the 
memory of Senator Heyburn, that able representative from the 
Gem State, who, after one of the greatest and hardest fights ever 
made in the United States Senate, secured the passage of the pure- 
food bill and who, after the bill had been passed, was the bul- 
wark around which centered the storm for its enforcement. I 
want to see engraved beneath that monument the inscription, " His 
greatest work for humanity was securing the passage of the na- 
tional pure-food law." 

CONVICTIONS 

I have called attention to concrete instances of public 
service performed by Senator Heyburn. May I say, how- 
ever, that possibly quite as important as this was the 
position that he took upon certain fundamental principles 
of government and society? 

Senator Heyburn was born of Quaker parentage and, 
as is well known, the Quakers were despised for many 
years by people in the early Colonies to a degree almost 
unparalleled in American history. 

Undoubtedly the influence of an organization such as 
the Quakers and the attitude of the world toward the 
members of that sect contributed in no little degree to 
Weldon B. Heyburn's strength of character and, probably 
in large measure, modified his attitude toward the definite 
organizations through which are determined the wishes 
of society. 

The period during which Senator Heyburn was born is 
also of interest in calling attention to the influences that 

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helped to shape his early life. Senator Heyburn was but 
a boy throughout the crisis of the Civil War, at the im- 
pressionable age that would be influenced in greater de- 
gree than probably any other by environment, by discus- 
sion, and by the trend of thought among older folks, 
which, without their being aware of the fact, was making 
a deep impression upon the earnest young member of 
the family. 

Senator Heyburn was loyal to the Union. He had ab- 
solutely no patience with the causes that led up to the 
Civil War and was, in fact, bitter toward every move- 
ment that looked to the perpetuation of even the memory 
of that unfortunate crisis in American history. Doubt- 
less his attitude appeals to most people as that of an ex- 
tremist, and yet I find probably the cause for that ex- 
treme position in the intense years filled with the throes 
of war, with all its suffering and death and sorrow, 
through which the boy Weldon developed from child- 
hood to young manhood's years. The Battle of Gettys- 
burg, upon which the fate of the Nation in large part 
hung, and one of the greatest engagements of the world's 
history, was fought not many miles from the boyhood 
home of Senator Heyburn. 

An impression was written upon his very character 
that nothing could efface, and that made him as intolerant 
toward the memory of the movement that looked to the 
breaking asunder of our Nation as were those who fought 
for the Nation's integrity uncompromising and intolerant 
in their position 50 years ago. 

How intense was Senator Heyburn's feeling in the mat- 
ter of the Civil War and his judgment of the tremendous 
consequences that were dependent upon the outcome of 
the issue between the North and the South may be gath- 
ered from his words in the course of the debate in the 
Senate of the United States during the time the service 



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pension bill was being considered. Speaking of the sol- 
diers of that great war, Senator Heyburn said: 

There was never in the history of the world the performance of 
men that accomplished such great good as was accomplished by 
those men. Other soldiers have kept the thrones for kings. 
Other soldiers have been able to turn the tide of one monarchy 
against another. Other soldiers have been able to seize new 
countries and subjugate them. 

But this was a soldiery that stood for the preservation of a 
country that stood then and stands now on a higher plane of 
civilization than any other country in the world. It may be 
worth while to save a monarchy and yield your life for it. It 
may be worth while to keep some petty king upon the throne and 
even sacrifice your life or your welfare for him. But it is count- 
less times greater to offer your life and make the sacrifice to 
maintain the Republic of the United States — the only Republic 
that was known in that day or has been known since that is 
worthy of the name. 

It has been said that Senator Heyburn belonged to an 
old school. It has been said that his sympathies were 
entirely out of touch with the present and that they were 
more in harmony with a period a half century or a cen- 
tury ago. 

Senator Heyburn believed in making progress slowly 
and with due respect to the experiences of the past. He 
believed in the Biblical injunction, "Remove not the an- 
cient landmarks which thy fathers have set." He was 
not a man who could be swept oft" his feet by the tide of 
public sentiment or by the passing whim of an excited 
day. He was a man not averse to new thought or new 
ideas, but one who preferred to think carefully and well 
upon the proposed plans before attempting to revolution- 
ize government and place into actual practice policies 
hitherto untried. 

I believe that had Senator Heyburn lived at the time 
the American Government was born he would have par- 
ticipated in the shaping of its fundamental principles. I 

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believe he would not have been found working in har- 
mony with Jefferson or Madison, but would rather have 
been found working shoulder to shoulder with Hamilton, 
with the Adamses, with Hancock, with that body of noble 
men who felt that republican government was an experi- 
ment, and who, while thoroughly in sympathy with the 
idea of American independence, believed that this Gov- 
ernment would do well to maintain such a form as would 
insure stability, eliminating, however, the idea of per- 
petual kingship. 

Had Senator Heyburn lived 50 years ago, and during 
the period that immediately preceded the great Civil 
War, I have no doubt that in that period he would have 
been identified with the elements throughout the United 
States who felt that the institution of slavery was wrong; 
that the system should be abolished; and that the Govern- 
ment of the United States should be maintained in its 
integrity. 

A CONSERVATIVE 

Senator Heyburn, with relation to the problems that 
have confronted our country during the last 20 years, was 
distinctively a conservative. On the question of election 
of Senators he was entirely out of sympathy with the 
movement that has been waxing and waning for three- 
quarters of a century, until in recent years it culminated 
with overwhelming power in a demand that could not be 
disregarded that the Congress of the United States recog- 
nize the deep feeling of the American people that this 
modification be made in our fundamental law. He was 
one of those who, in the Senate of the United States, 
opposed the amendment. 

Senator Heyburn had no patience with the demand for 
more direct expression of the people through the direct 
primary, the initiative, referendum, and recall, and he 



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felt that these innovations would produce evil rather than 
good if given a place in our system of Government. 

He was a strong believer in the Federal Government, 
but believed with deep earnestness that the State should 
leave to private initiative everything that does not need 
to be taken over by organized society or controlled by it, 
as a result of experience that urged that government 
management or control is for the unquestioned public 
good. 

Senator Heyburn favored the passage of the pure food 
and drug act. On the other hand, he bitterly opposed the 
passage of the act creating the Children's Bureau. Both 
are the same in principle, yet he condemned the latter as 
paternalistic. Probably the pure food and drug act may 
be regarded as the extreme to which he would permit him- 
self to go, and that while the Children's Bureau measure 
was similar so far as principle is concerned the problems 
with which it has to do were regarded by him as questions 
that should be handled through the home or by local 
instrumentalities within the State. 

On the question of conservation Senator Heyburn took 
a position that has been earnestly applauded and vigor- 
ously condemned. He always maintained with great sin- 
cerity the necessity of conservation of the country's nat- 
ural resources, but he urged that the first natural resource 
to be conserved is opportunity for a citizen to engage in 
productive enterprise, having such material as land, tim- 
ber, power, and water sites, and so forth, as his capital 
and basis of operation. He opposed the accumulation 
of vast areas of public land by individuals or corpora- 
tions. He favored a general and specific plan that would 
result in the population of the country by actual bona fide 
settlers. He believed that it is not only the right but the 
duty of each generation to participate in the use and en- 
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the neglect or failure on the part of the people to do so is 
the failure of duty on their part toward the growth and 
greatness of our country. He vigorously opposed the 
comprehensive policy that has application at present in 
part and the extension of which is earnestly urged looking 
to more complete Federal management and control of the 
natural resources of the country. He believed that the 
policies that have been followed by our Nation for the past 
50 years justify the wisdom of those who had part in their 
shaping, and he would have applied these policies to the 
great questions of the day and continued them through 
the years to come. 

PARTY AFFILIATION 

Senator Heyburn was a Republican — ardent, devout in 
his convictions, earnest in the defense of that which he 
conceived to be the basic principles of the party to which 
he belonged. 

Repeatedly during the last year it was my privilege to 
talk over with him some of the matters that concern our 
Nation and with which the Republican Party has had to 
do. Senator Heyburn believed that the Republican Party 
has accomplished only part of its great mission. He be- 
lieved it has more to do, but he did not believe in tem- 
porizing. He did not believe in embodying and incor- 
porating as a part of the Republican platform principles 
that are of popular interest with which he was not in 
sympathy. True, he believed that this would mean defeat 
for the Republican Party, if failure to carrj' an election in 
a given year means defeat, but he felt that in the end 
the wisdom of the party whose principles he had espoused 
would prevail. He believed his party would need to go 
through the purging of fire that it might be made better 
and stronger and more able to carry on the work to which 



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it was dedicated by the immortal Lincoln and his noble 
coworkers who outlined the principles for which it has 
stood for one-half a century and more. 

OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY 

Senator Heyburn believed that every public official 
should take seriously the office and the responsibilities of 
office that are committed to his trust. He believed that 
the people intend when they elect a man to public office 
to clothe that man with power to act for them. He 
believed in the right of petition by the people, but he 
believed that the right to petition should mean no more 
than the expression of the views of the people upon a sub- 
ject in which they might be interested for the guidance of 
the public official. He believed that the public official is 
bound by the very obligation of his office to exercise his 
own judgment in the matter upon which the people have 
petitioned in the final determination of the problem. 

I do not know that he felt this responsibility more 
keenly because he was a Member of the Senate than he 
would have felt it if he had been a Member of the popular 
branch of our National Congress. It may be that recog- 
nizing that the Members of the House are elected every 
two years and are supposed to represent not the State, 
but the people from whom they come, he would have 
conceded the right and maybe the duty of the Members 
to act in harmony as nearly as they can with the senti- 
ment of those who have given to them the commission 
to serve them. I think that, with respect to the Senate, 
he never for one moment entertained a doubt as to the 
responsibility of a Senator. 

He did not assume that any constituent who was a pe- 
titioner could not handle the same problem with perfect 
confidence and wisdom if intrusted with the responsi- 



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bility of meeting the problem, but he did believe that the 
one to whom that responsibility was given should give of 
his time and his talents in far greater degree than is 
asked or even permitted to the average citizen in con- 
sidering the important problems of the day. 

The question of degree to which a member of a legis- 
lative body should be responsive to popular will has been 
one to which the best minds of our country have given 
attention since the day the Constitution was adopted. 
There has been no definite course to which the members 
of legislative bodies could feel themselves committed. 
Here and there an individual has resigned when he found 
himself out of harmony with the people who had given 
him a commission to represent them. Possibly more fre- 
quently members of legislative bodies have bowed to the 
wish of their constituents and have regarded it as their 
highest duty to obey that wish regardless of their personal 
desire, feeling that their desire personally represented no 
more than an individual wish of any citizen who had 
exercised his franchise in helping to choose a Representa- 
tive or a Senator. 

Again there have been, so long as we have had a Re- 
public, a few men who have stood out for the doctrine 
that when a commission has been given it has carried 
with it full responsibility, so far as judgment is concerned 
upon public questions, throughout the term of service 
to which the member has been chosen. Senator Hey- 
burn, probably more than any other man in the last 20 
years, stood for this policy. It made him enemies; it 
made him friends; it caused detractors to rise up; and it 
produced admirers. 

CHARACTERISTICS 

If there were one characteristic that more than any other 
could be said to be distinctively that of Senator Heyburn, 

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I believe that the characteristic of candor and frankness 
would probably be the one defined. No one needed to 
wait long to ascertain the position of Senator Heyburn 
upon any public question. No one needed to hesitate to 
raise a question with him for discussion because he did 
not believe with Senator Heyburn. I recall that during 
the first two or three years of Senator Heyburn's service 
in the Senate a problem was being considered by the Mem- 
bers of the delegation from Idaho that did not appeal to 
all of us in the same way. It was at the time when Sena- 
tor Dubois was the colleague of Senator Heyburn. I re- 
call that one of the prominent citizens of Idaho made a 
special trip to Washington in the interest of the measure; 
I recall that with me he made his visit to Senator Hey- 
burn and that in my presence he talked over with the 
Senator his attitude upon the problem. Senator Dubois 
had not been able to see the question as Senator Heyburn 
did, and I recall that just as my friend and I were about 
to leave Senator Heyburn's office my friend said to the 
Senator, " If you like, I will go over and talk to Senator 
Dubois and come back and let you know just what his 
attitude is." Senator Heyburn, in all kindliness of man- 
ner and intention, very promptly said in reply, " Senator 
Dubois and I may not agree upon this problem, but we are 
able to talk the matter over." In other words, he did not 
want a go-between. The same idea was characteristic of 
Senator Heyburn's relation with myself, and, I believe, 
with all the Members of the Senate and the House, and, in 
fact, with all men with whom he had to deal. More than 
this, Senator Heyburn admired candor in other people. 

When he was elected to the Senate in 1903 there were 
several strong men contending for the honor. One of 
these men was the late Hon. George L. Shoup, himself a 
Senator from Idaho for 10 years. After Senator Heyburn 
was chosen he sent a telegram to Hon. Addison T. Smith, 



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who had been with Senator Shoup during his service in 
the Senate, tendering him the position of secretary. Mr. 
Smith promptly replied that he could not accept the posi- 
tion, for he had not been favorable to the election of Mr. 
Heyburn as Senator, but, on the other hand, had sup- 
ported Senator Shoup. Senator Heyburn replied that if 
he had not supported Senator Shoup, having been asso- 
ciated with him for so long a time, he would not now be 
soliciting his services. Mr. Smith accepted the position 
and at the close of nearly 10 years of intimate association 
with Senator Heyburn spoke of him as follows: 

No man in public life in recent years has been so misunderstood 
and misrepresented. He never received proper credit for the 
splendid work he has done for the State and Nation, as he was 
always adverse to exploiting his accomplishments through the 
newspapers. The consciousness of duty well performed was his 
reward for his arduous labors. Those who were not acquainted 
with him, and many of those who only saw him occasionally, 
were of the opinion that he was of an austere and imperious dis- 
position. This was a natural assumption, because of his aggres- 
siveness in debate or when contending for his views on public 
questions, but to those who knew him best he appeared in his true 
character. He was generous to a fault, kind and considerate, true 
to his friends, and loyal and devoted to his family. In fact, I 
never knew a man who was more interested in his relatives and 
the friends of his early life and those who endured with him the 
hardships incident to pioneer days in the Coeur d'Alenes. He 
was a most congenial and lovable companion, and while he was 
intensely devoted to his work he always found time to cultivate 
the amenities of life. 

The Senator was most devoted to his State and to what he be- 
lieved to be for the best interest of the people. 

Few men in public life were so well informed generally 
as was Senator Heyburn. His mind was a veritable store- 
house, and while he appeared at all times to have pre- 
pared his addresses with much care, I am satisfied that the 
language that he used in delivering almost every address 

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that he made was spontaneous and the facts that he 
brought out were selected from those that had been stored 
in his memory through his years of experience. 

Upon one occasion he was to deliver a notable address 
in the capital city of the State that he represented. His 
secretary, Mr. Smith, observed that the Senator was en- 
grossed in other matters and was letting the days and, 
finally, the hours pass by without apparent preparation 
for the address. He finally reminded the Senator of the 
engagement that he had assumed. Senator Heyburn 
turned to him and said, " Why, Addison, I have been pre- 
paring that speech for 20 years." 

As an orator Senator Heyburn must take high rank. 
From the numerous discussions in which he expressed his 
sentiments during the running debates in the Senate, no 
adequate idea can be had of his power. True, even in 
fragmentary and running debate his sentences were ele- 
gant, his words well chosen, and his illustrations apt and 
drawn from a vast field of experience or from extensive 
reading. 

His occasional addresses, however, told of his strength 
as an orator and lift him at once into that high plane of 
public speakers who have contributed to the reputation of 
our greatest legislative body and give him a place among 
the men capable of expressing the profoundest truth in 
perfect diction. 

While Senator Heyburn belonged to a family that had 
given great names to England and America, this fact was 
not for him to boast, but rather it was a matter for him to 
carry within his family as a circumstance of great pride 
and yet not a circumstance that would help him unless he 
measured up to the responsibilities that a member of that 
family should assume. In fact. Senator Heyburn believed 
that there is a responsibility to be borne by every indi- 
vidual and that too much prestige and encouragement 



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from home may blight an otherwise successful life. In 
speaking with Senator Heyburn one time I recall that the 
Senator expressed to me the idea that it is questionable 
whether or not wealth bequeathed by a parent to a child 
does not constitute a curse rather than a blessing. It was 
his idea that the young man or the young woman should 
be self-reliant and, regardless of the influence or wealth 
of his parents, himself assume the responsibilities that life 
presents. 

Senator Heyburn was one of the most versatile men I 
ever knew. He was a great lover of nature, and those who 
had occasion to be with him during his moments of recrea- 
tion found him one of the most delightful companions that 
could be chosen for a fishing excursion, a few days in the 
mountains, or in the varied modes of recreation available 
to the people of the mountain region surrounding his 
home. 

Again, Senator Heyburn was a man who did not know 
what it was to be afraid. This thought applies not only 
to his attitude in public life upon questions of statecraft, 
but applies as well to his personal attitude as he met the 
problems that oftentimes present themselves to a strong 
man. 

I have been told that at one time during labor difficulties 
near his home when he was warned not to appear because 
of his attitude toward those who felt themselves aggrieved, 
he refused to heed the warning, but in a public address 
upheld constituted authority and warned those who had 
challenged him that though for a time they might gain 
control, law and order would be restored and justice 
meted out to every one of them. 

IN CONCLUSION 

The last days of Senator Heyburn were fitting to the 
active life that he had led, for most of the time his mind 

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was clear, and one of his last sentences was with relation 
to his work in the Senate — " I am worn out, but I am worn 
out in the service of a great cause" — and as a parting 
testimony of the conviction of his own soul upon the ever- 
living inspiration of the ages, he expressed a clear faith 
and hope in God. 

Finally, then, with the candor with which we all view 
the lives of those whose race has been run, recognizing 
traits of character that are variously esteemed, recogniz- 
ing positions upon public questions taken by Senator Hey- 
BURN that were not in harmony with the hopes of his most 
earnest friends, recognizing that possibly he was not in 
sympathy with the public opinion prevailing during the 
last few years of his life, yet recognizing, on the other 
hand, his strength of character, his honesty of purpose, 
his fidelity to duty as he saw duty, the fearlessness with 
which he met and contended with the influences that in 
one way or another sought to impress themselves upon 
the tasks with which he had to do, as we recall the mem- 
ory of one with whom we may or may not have been in 
accord, we can not fail at this hour to pay to him the great 
tribute that was paid to another in the words, " Here was 
a man." 



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Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 

Mr. Speaker: It was my good fortune to meet Senator 
Heyburn soon after his election to the Senate in 1903 and 
the acquaintance then formed ripened into a friendship 
which continued to grow and strengthen as time passed. 

Of the many virtues which Senator Heyburn possessed 
the one which most impressed me, and in my opinion 
was his most striking characteristic, was his unfailing 
moral courage. He possessed in an unusual degree the 
courage of his convictions. 

It has been my experience that the most common and 
besetting fault of many good men is the disposition, in 
the face of opposition, in the presence of criticism, in the 
interest of harmony, to compromise their views, to waive 
their convictions. 

How few, even of the best of men, can be depended 
upon at all times and under all circumstances to stand 
boldly for what they believe to be the right, to stand by 
and defend an unpopular cause, to voice an unpopular 
truth, to expose the fallacy of a popular fad, to rebuke 
forgetfulness of principle. 

I do not mean to be understood as holding the opinion 
that there is lack of loyalty or steadfastness in the world 
to-day; if the occasion demanded there would be no lack 
of martyrs to any good cause. At the last ditch and in 
the final stand for principle men will be found as true 
and as faithful to-day as ever in the tide of time. In fact, 
believing as I do that the world grows steadily better, I 
am of the opinion that in any crucial test for a principle 
mankind is generally far more dependable now than in 
former days. 

What we do lack is an appreciation of the importance 
of voicing our protest at all times against harmful ten- 
dencies, against indifference, against that denial of truth 

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or of a cause which is involved in ignoring it. We are too 
prone to stand silently or idly by while truth is flaunted 
or ignored. 

Of all the men I now recall whom I have known, he in 
whose memory we are gathered to-day was most free 
from this fault and weakness. His devotion to those prin- 
ciples in which he believed — his loyalty to every cause he 
espoused or cherished — was so intense, so earnest, so un- 
wavering, that he never hesitated to boldly and bluntly 
declare his position and express his convictions, utterly 
regardless of the effect such declaration might have on 
his fortune or his reputation. 

This characteristic of our departed friend was the more 
noticeable in view of the fact that he possessed a heart 
overflowing with kindness; that he was tolerant of the 
views and opinions of others; that he was considerate of 
the feelings of those who differed from him. His ruling 
passion, however, was intensity of conviction. Those 
principles and policies which his judgment approved he 
believed in with all the fervor and devotion of a cru- 
sader, and to him an attitude of indifference, or of easy 
tolerance, in the presence of an attack upon them, di- 
rectly or indirectly, or even by analogy or inference, was 
unthinkable. 

He was a loyal knight, with ever-ready lance, quick not 
only to repel attack on those things he held sacred but 
to carry the warfare into the enemy's camp. In his opin- 
ion no good soldier of a cause had performed his duty 
by merely holding steadfastly his position; there was the 
duty of countercharge, with a view, if possible, of dis- 
lodging the opposition from its position. 

Holding these views of his duty and possessing the 
courage necessary' to live up to them, it was inevitable 
that in his political career and in the performance of liis 
ofRcial duties he should have run counter to the views 

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of many men and have had sharp and pointed differences 
with them, and yet so apparent was his sincerity', so man- 
ifest the honesty of his purpose, so free from malice or 
unkindliness were the blows he delivered, the home 
thrusts he gave, that he disarmed hostile criticism and 
often made of those with whom he most differed his 
warmest friends. 

The lives of men whose lives are conspicuously worth 
while are valuable to us to the extent that we take to 
heart the truths which such lives emphasize. The life 
of our departed friend and colleague was useful and val- 
uable in many ways. His influence for good was exerted 
over a wide field, embraced many subjects, was helpful 
to many people, but, in my opinion, that influence was 
most potent, will be most permanent, in its emphasis of 
the importance of deep and steadfast conviction and un- 
failing courage in defense and support of such convic- 
tion. His example reminds us that it is as much our duty 
to utter the note of warning, to challenge the false step or 
dangerous tendency, where to do so is neither popular 
nor palatable and can have no immediate effect, as to do 
so when such action is popular and likely to be promptly 
effective. In fact, in the former case the duty is the 
more imperative and its performance the more meri- 
torious because of the courage required in its fulfillment. 

In the passing of Senator Heyburn every good cause 
lost a fearless champion, and we who knew him lost a 
faithful friend. The great Northwest country, where he 
lived so long and whose interests he so courageously and 
effectively supported and defended, sincerely mourns 
him. He passed away in the full flower of his usefulness, 
and yet his life was peculiarly complete, and when the 
summons came he left us the blessed memory of a life of 
great and lasting usefulness and of a character rich in all 
the manly virtues. 

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Address of Mr. Kahn, of California 

Mr. Speaker : Weldon Brinton Heyburn was one of the 
striking characters of the United States Senate. His early 
education eminently qualified him for a seat in that body. 
He was one of the best-informed men that I ever met. As 
a lawyer in the West he occupied a preeminent position. 
For over 30 years he practiced in the courts of his own 
State of Idaho, as well as in tlie Federal courts of nearly 
all of the Western Commonwealths. At heart he was a 
most kindly, courteous gentleman. He took an active 
part in the councils of his party. He was a thoroughly 
intense partisan, but was always fair in dealing with his 
political opponents. He had pronounced views upon all 
great public questions and always had the courage to ex- 
press them. The matter of retaining popularity with the 
masses did not swerve him from what he considered to 
be the path of duty. There was no demagogy in his entire 
make-up. He never weighed the effect of his utterances 
on questions of the day upon his own fortunes. He was 
not what politicians call a "trimmer." Everyone knew 
where he stood on those subjects that were of absorbing 
interest to the American people, and even though one 
might not agree with him in his position, one always ad- 
mired his courage in his fight for what he deemed the 
right. And once having made up his mind as to what he 
believed to be the right course to pursue, he steadfastly 
followed that course regardless of the attacks that were 
made upon him by his opponents. He was an indefati- 
gable worker. He was just the kind of man that is 
needed in our public life. He was a forceful speaker, a 
ready debater. He was outspoken and blunt, at times 
almost to the point of brusqueness. Fearless, honest, 

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faithful, and straightforward, he never hesitated to tell 
the truth, even though the telling thereof may have had 
occasion to cause temporary' wounds. He took an active 
part in the debates of the Senate and helped to frame 
some of the most important laws that have been enacted 
during the last decade. His was a rugged physique, and 
I believed that he would enjoy many years of usefulness 
in the Senate; but it was not to be. He was stricken some 
months before he passed away, and when the end came it 
was not altogether a surprise to his near friends. He 
has gone to his reward; but in his adopted State of Idaho 
there are dozens of young men who will always revere 
his memory; they looked up to Senator Heyburn as a true 
leader whom they might well follow. He was always 
ready to extend a helping hand to the struggling, ambi- 
tious j'outh of his State. They could always turn to him 
for counsel and advice; he inspired them with the cour- 
age to dare maintain the right. We join with them and 
with all who were permitted to know him in this life in 
expressing our appreciation of his worth as a legislator, 
his patriotism as a citizen, and his straightforward hon- 
esty as a man. 

At this point Mr. French assumed the chair as Speaker 
pro tempore. 



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Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 

Mr. Speaker: The numerous melancholy occasions of 
this nature during the Sixty-second Congress have 
brought very vividly before us the truths not only as to 
the fleeting existence which is common to all mankind, 
but also that the struggles and stress of active public life 
do seriously impair the vitality and diminish the length 
of days of even the most robust of our colleagues. Per- 
haps as notable example of this is to be found in the life 
and departure of the man whose memory we honor by 
these exercises. His Quaker ancestry had transmitted to 
him that strength of mind and body which has so distin- 
guished that splendid people wherever they may be 
found, and to the limit of his superb powers had he util- 
ized the virtues, the character, the vigor, and the ability 
with which he had been so plentifully endowed. As has 
been the case with multitudes of American youth, from 
a restless spirit of adventure and a desire for personal 
advancement, young Heyburn sought the West with its 
hardships, its freedom for growth and action, its oppor- 
tunities for development of the greatest, best, and most 
which was within him. He entered into the spirit and 
life of those frontier days, and with his sound legal train- 
ing, his strength of personality, and undaunted courage 
and perseverance, soon had a large share in the forma- 
tion of the career and character of the vigorous young 
Commonwealth where he had chanced his fortunes and 
established his western home. The strong, practical, and 
capable men who associated with him early recognized 
and appreciated his usefulness and capacity, and at the 
age of 51 he was elected to represent his State in the Sen- 



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ate of the United States. There he speedily became a 
conspicuous, forceful, and thoroughly capable figure, with 
a faculty for useful and practical industry and a marked 
ability for an effective presentation of his views upon the 
great diversity of public questions upon which we are 
all compelled to pass in our work as legislative represent- 
atives of a great people. Early in his senatorial career 
Senator Heyburn attracted attention by his most efficient 
work as chairman of the then comparatively insignificant 
Committee on Manufactures, but which had jurisdiction 
of legislation concerning pure food and drugs, which 
under his guidance was so soon to benefit the health and 
pockets of the American people. 

There was a general realization throughout the country 
that some proper and adequate laws should be passed by 
Congress regulating and controlling the commerce of the 
necessities for our people, so that they should be pro- 
tected as much as possible from fraud and deception, 
and so that the States could safely follow in such paths 
the wise and salutary rules laid down by Congress. Nat- 
urally there were strenuous objections to any such legis- 
lation, not from those who did not desire any such regu- 
lation, but from a great body of reputable and prudent 
business men, who had apprehension as to the effect of 
such a new departure upon their affairs conducted along 
lines entirely praiseworthy and in a safe and legitimate 
way. So it did require much courage, skill, persistence, 
and industry to overcome these obstacles and bring suc- 
cess to such a tremendously important task. Senator 
Heyburn contributed a very large share toward it, and 
if he had performed no other public service for the Amer- 
ican people they should ever be grateful to him for his 
labors at a critical time toward that legislation which has 
been so salutary and which has exerted so beneficial an 
influence among the States and throughout the countiy. 



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Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 

He was the special champion of his people and State 
and section of the country against that policy of conser- 
vation of the natural resources of the West which he 
conceived could only result in their injury and prevent 
proper and adequate development. This contest was con- 
stant and prolonged and enlisted all of the powerful re- 
sources of his rugged and forceful nature and all of the 
capabilities which so distinguished him among his com- 
peers. His great wealth of information, his profound 
knowledge of legal principles, his long and varied expe- 
rience among his people and in the development of his 
splendid young State, his strong and logical intellect and 
superb powers for the presentation of his views, gave 
him an influence in the discussion of these subjects such 
as had few of his colleagues. His industry and devotion 
to his people and their interests, the incessant demand 
upon him to care for them as adequately as he thought 
was required of him, drew heavily upon liis vital forces. 

He would not rest when the contest was on concerning 
public matters before Congress or the departments 
strongly affecting his constituents. This devotion and 
this persistence and unwearying zeal for those whom he 
represented and whose welfare was so dear to him weak- 
ened even his rugged frame and reduced even his won- 
derful reserves. No one can estimate how much such 
labors assisted toward shortening his days and hastening 
the inevitable end. 

Unless one had a chance to know him well, there could 
never be discerned or appreciated the great wealth of 
sentiment or the keenest human sympathies and kindli- 
ness in his nature. It was my privilege to meet him a 
number of times during one of the few vacations he had 
while in public life. He was traveling in Europe with 
his family and had cast aside the many cares of his high 
office and was enjoying as a boy the scenes and impres- 

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sions which the Old World made upon him, whose nature 
was so typical of the American West. I especially recall 
his delight in his touring of England and Scotland, whose 
history and poetry and romance had long been so familiar 
to him and which had filled such a part in his own 
heredity, experience, and culture. Then became revealed 
to us who were with him that extensive reading and rare 
appreciation of the beauties of nature and literature 
which we soon realized that he possessed. We came to 
know from such intimacy what a strong, true, loyal, and 
devoted soul he had and what a sure and firm foundation 
was his for his unremitting labors for his people and for 
his country. He had the courage to stand upright and 
proclaim the faith that was in him and of which he was 
ever proud at a time when real men were sorely needed. 
"The deepest hunger of a faithful soul is true faithful- 
ness." 

His departure is sincerely mourned as a national loss 
among those who were associated with him, and those 
who knew him best will ever cherish his memory as of a 
loyal and delightful friend, a wise and prudent associate, 
and a patriotic and devoted servant of his people and 
lover of his country. 

No man better exemplified the truth of the poet — 

The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Of all the wonders that I have heard 

It seems to me most strange that men should fear. 

Seeing that death, a necessary end. 

Will come to him, when it will come. 



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Address of Mr. Howell, of Utah 

Mr. Speaker: It was after my election as a Member of 
the House of Representatives that I was privileged for the 
first time to visit Washington and behold this splendid 
edifice, this imposing Capitol of the Nation. Grand and 
glorious as it impressed me then, its magnificence and 
glory have constantly grown upon me. So, too, my serv- 
ice in Congress has profoundly impressed upon me more 
and more as the years flit by the high character, industry, 
devotion, and patriotism of the great men chosen by a 
free people to bear the responsibility and discharge the 
arduous, perplexing, and important duties of government. 
, In these days, when the freedom of the press attains its 
fullest publicity, prominent men in public life are known 
to the mass of the people in the light of their character 
and service as set forth in the press and periodicals of 
the time; but from the very nature of the intimate asso- 
ciation of its membership, of their collaboration together 
for the public weal, the Senate or House becomes the 
truest and most perfect judge of the ability, character, 
and worth of its Member. No weak or unworthy man can 
rise and long maintain commanding influence in either 
body. And so the time-honored custom of setting apart 
a day for paying befitting tribute to the memory of our 
comrades whose life mission is ended is most beautiful 
and admirable. In the j^ears to come, after the keen sor- 
row of parting with our friends has mellowed to a fond 
recollection of all that they were when they were taber- 
nacled in the flesh, to read what is said to-day will awaken 
long-buried memories and inspire new courage to press 
forward in honorable effort to "make our lives sublime." 
We are assembled on such an occasion to-day, and I im- 
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to the memory of Weldon Brinton Heyburn, Idaho's dis- 
tinguished Senator, the Republic's honored son. He en- 
tered the Senate at the same time I became a Member 
of the House. While our duties here did not throw us 
into the closest association, having local interests in com- 
mon I came to know him well and to admire and honor 
him. His earthly probation extended over but little more 
than 60 years, but on the 17th day of October, 1912, when 
he was called away, his earthly record measures up to 
the fullness of a well-spent life. Time will not permit 
nor is it necessary for me to recount his distinguished 
public services. They are recorded in the history of his 
State and in the annals of the Senate and his country. 
Suffice it to say that he took an active and leading part 
in all the great questions before the country in the last 
decade. At the close of his first term in the Senate, for . 
the information of his people, a complete record of his 
industry, achievement, and his attitude on all public ques- 
tions was compiled. 

This record is replete with the evidences of his great 
industrj' and his statesmanlike grasp and his ability to 
elucidate grave public questions. Upon this record he 
again sought a commission as Senator and was trium- 
phantly elected. This was strikingly characteristic of the 
man. He was bold and strong and frank, and disdained 
to espouse or support any cause against his convictions 
merely to thereby court public favor. He believed in 
clear-cut issues and an honest declaration of policies and 
purposes. He loved his State and country to such an 
extent that patriotism was a passion with him. He hated 
fraud, pretense, and dishonesty in every relation of life. 
His championship of the pure food and drugs act and its 
passage under his leadership through the Senate is typical 
of the man and exemplifies his intense aversion to deceit, 
fraud, and dishonesty in commercial affairs. He sprang 

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from forbears who for generations had inherited a love 
of freedom and an orderly adherence to laws and institu- 
tions designed to secure this great boon. He was firmly 
set in his convictions, and did not easily sway with the 
winds of every new doctrine. He venerated the true and 
proven wisdom of the past, and in adopting new and 
untried experiments affecting the fundamental princi- 
ples of our Government he adhered to the well-known, 
salutary maxim, "Make haste slowly." He was able in 
debate, wise in counsel, devoted to the best interests of 
his State and countr3% and supremely endowed for most 
valuable service in the high council of the Senate. Who 
can properly estimate the value of such a life? Who can 
fully appreciate the enduring light shed forth by his 
work? Such men are the salt of the earth, the pillars of 
the temple of liberty, the torches which light the pathway 
of liberty. I do not agree with the great poet in the doc- 
trine that "the evil that men do lives after them; the 
good is oft interred with their bones." I am led rather 
to cherish the thought that the good that men do shall 
survive, the evil shall perish. The qualities of virtue, 
honesty, duty, patriotism, unselfish devotion to man, coun- 
try, and God bear within them the seeds of their own 
preservation and reproduction. Noble spirits have left 
their impress upon the world. We have them with us in 
this day and time, and in the future they will come to us 
and assume their rightful place of leadership among the 
children of men, and progress and liberty will continue 
to go forward hand in hand. 

Senator Heyburn profoundly realized the nature of his 
sojourn here. He was fully impressed that — 

Life is real! life is earnest! 

And the grave is not its goal! 
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 

Was not spoken of the soul. 



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Memorial ceremonies naturally lead to the contempla- 
tion of the brief span of life here, with all its vicissitudes 
and the limitless eternity on either side. I rejoice in the 
firm faith that "he is not dead; he has risen to a higher 
and more enduring sphere of activity and usefulness." 
"The glory of God is intelligence." That degree of intel- 
ligence to which he has attained is but symbolical of a 
future of eternal progress and development. His mission 
here is completed. He rests from his labors, and his 
works do follow him. 

"This pleasing hope, this fond desire, this longing after 
immortality" is well expressed in this simple prayer to 
our heavenlj' Father: 

When at last when I've completed 

All Thou sent me forth to do. 
With Thy mutual approbation 

Let me come and dwell with You. 



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Addeiess of Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: I have not frequently come in personal 
contact with Senator Heyburn, but I have watched with 
growing interest his many activities as well as his utter- 
ances on the floor of the Senate. To me there was some- 
thing unusually attractive in his rugged manhood, his 
extraordinary abilitj', his eloquence, and readiness at rep- 
artee. To a still greater degree was my admiration chal- 
lenged, however, by something which I prize more highly 
than all these. It is that quality which distinguishes a 
real man from a mental weakling, namely, courage of 
conviction. In the case of Senator Heyburn this term im- 
plied not only unswerving loyalty to the ideals and tra- 
ditions of the Republic, but also the bold and fearless 
expression, irrespective of consequences, of his honest 
opinions. This quality caused his friends to admire, his 
foes to fear him, but insured him the respect of friend 
and foe alike. It is an attribute of character which, judg- 
ing from practical experience, seems to have become 
sufficiently rare in these days of popular unrest to merit 
special mention wherever we see a manifestation of it. 
Men in public life can appreciate even more than those 
in private life its incomparable significance and value. 
It means that we speak and vote in accordance with our 
convictions. It means for us to take our political life in 
our hand and defend, by voice and vote, what we honestly 
believe to be right. No matter whether it leads to greater 
popularity or to political self-effacement, there must be 
no compromise with what is repulsive to our hearts and 
minds, and our advocacy of what to our conscience is 
right and the resistance to what seems to us wrong must 
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for our country, there are still many who practice this 
greatest of all public virtues, but among them our de- 
parted friend held foremost rank. As a consequence of 
that noble trait it was quite natural that his public career 
should have been encouraged by strong friendships and, 
on the other hand, beset by strong antagonisms; but, as I 
said before, friend and foe alike readily recognized and 
respected his mental honesty, his integrity of character, 
and his manly courage. 

Senator Heyburn was a Republican. He believed in 
the high mission of his party to forever be an instrument 
of the people for sane progress and reform. He was a 
" standpatter " when asked to go wrong and a progressive 
when progress was in the right direction. He sincerely 
believed in representative government under the Con- 
stitution, and could not make up his mind to consent to 
political experiments where popular rule, under existing 
forms, had been such a phenomenal success. The con- 
servatism of his nature rebelled against risking a leap 
into the dark — ^and this is what, to his mind, unbridled 
majority rule signified — at a time when the country en- 
joyed the blessings of unparalleled prosperity, when, con- 
sequently, there was no valid excuse for untried innova- 
tions in government, and when further progress along 
sane and safe lines and along the pathway of constitu- 
tional rule was the watchword of his party under a 
President who, in faithful performance and honest en- 
forcement of the laws of the land, has not had a superior 
in the annals of American history. While the political 
storms raged all about him, Senatur Heyburn stood firm, 
anchored to the solid rock of good judgment and honest 
conviction, and it is my earnest belief that, had he been 
permitted to stay among us but a few years longer, he 
would have lived to see his judgment vindicated. 



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Address of Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri 

For reasons inscrutable to all save Providence he was 
taken from us in the prime of manhood and while great 
questions of concern to his constituents, to his State, and 
country were calling for his cooperation and for the ex- 
ercise of his indomitable energy and rare intellect. In 
mute grief those to whom he was nearest and dearest as 
well as all his contemporaries and colaborers must bow 
to the inevitable. His untimely death was an irreparable 
loss to both the State of Idaho, which he so ably repre- 
sented here, and to the Nation and will be mourned by 
all. He was a great citizen, a great lawyer, and a great 
legislator, but his most fitting epitaph would be: " He was 
a man." 



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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 

Mr. Speaker : A man who rises to distinction above the 
high average of unusual ability to be found in the House 
and Senate does so by reason of some exceptional value 
as a public servant and as a man, and this question of 
the value of the man in the public service is a question 
I desire to discuss briefly in connection with Senator 
Heyburn, whose memory we revere in the ceremonies of 
to-day. Congress legislates upon information and opin- 
ion. Upon the sufficiency of the information and the 
soundness of the opinion derived therefrom depends the 
value of the legislation which may be enacted. Legis- 
lators seldom build better than they know. While it may 
appear that some former legislative body did an un- 
usually wise thing that survived through the ages, it is 
not because they had any unusual understanding of the 
times to come, but because the conditions under which 
they legislated were continued to or repeated in a later 
time. Therefore I repeat that upon the sufficiency of in- 
formation and the soundness of judgment the value of 
legislation depends. A man who comes into either House 
and by industry in the ascertainment of facts, honesty in 
their statement, and care in their interpretation does the 
public a useful service and becomes a distinguished man. 

To illustrate what I have in mind : Savonarola at the 
lime of the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, in Flor- 
ence, and the expulsion of his son Piero, found the city 
without a government and the citizens unable to found a 
government for themselves. He did not as a creator man- 
ufacture a government out of hand for the Florentines, 
but from a great knowledge of the governments of his 
time he decided that the government of Venice, with suit- 

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able changes, would be best adapted to Florence. This 
he advocated in public addresses, and following his sug- 
gestions and his leadership the people of Florence estab- 
lished a government modeled upon that of Venice. The 
government so organized is said by the historians without 
exception to be the best government the Florentines ever 
had. Simply because he had adequate information and 
the soundness of interpretation at a critical time in his 
state's history Savonarola rendered his people a great 

service. 

There gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 a body of men 
who were charged with the duty of framing a Consti- 
tution for the government of a people recently free. The 
English historians say the colonists of this country had 
been buying more law books than the citizens of England 
had been buying, and they had been buying histories and 
other books on political affairs. When that body of 
men came together they did not strike out at white heat 
a new thing, but out of an adequacy of information and 
soundness of judgment upon the events history had re- 
corded of man's endeavors to govern himself they organ- 
ized the best government that could have been instituted 
for our country. 

What I have in mind in considering the public services 
of Senator Heyburn is the importance of adequate infor- 
mation and of sound opinion derived therefrom. The 
encyclopedic character of Ms information, both as to the 
law and the facts relating to subjects pending before the 
Senate, was universally conceded. When he arose to 
speak it was with the fullness of information, and when 
he presented a case it was with a wealth of illustration, 
so that not only his supporters but his opponents profited 
by his industry, his care, his painstaking labor, which 
led to fame. 



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Falstaff says of himself: 

I am not only witty, but am the cause of wit in other men. 

So Senator Heyburn himself was not only industrious, 
but was the cause of industry in other men; not only pos- 
sessed of a great fund of knowledge, but caused other 
men to be similarly possessed; was not only himself a 
statesman, but, because he was a statesman, he led others 
to statesmanlike emulation. Not only was he an effective 
public servant, but by faithful service and by information 
and soundness of opinion he led others to such industry 
as would make them more effective and faithful public 
servants. 

He lived but 60 years, and he served his country use- 
fully, effectively, honorably, and courageously. " That 
life is long which answers life's great end." And when 
he died some great causes lost a great champion. 

Ah, who that gallant spirit shall resume, 

Leap from Eurota's banks, and call us from the tomb. 

If Senator Heyburn knew the matters of the spirit as 
well as he knew the matters relating to his public duties 
and private obligations, then for him " the morn in russet 
mantle clad, walks on the dews of Heaven's high hills." 
Let us so hope. 



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Address of Mr. La Follette, of Washington 

Mr. Speaker: The late Senator Weldon B. Heyburn, of 
Idaho, was to me one of the most unique characters in 
American political life. My personal acquaintance with 
him was brief, dating only from the beginning of the short 
session of the Sixty-first Congress. He was what was 
known as an "old-line" Republican, while 1 had been 
elected to the Sixty-second Congress as a Progressive 
Republican. 

I came to Washington in the early days of December, 
1911, and occupied my time during the short session of 
the Sixty-first Congress about evenly between the House 
and Senate, familiarizing myself with men, measures, and 
methods of procedure. 

Senator Heyburn had been in the public eye in the 
neighboring State of Idaho for many years, and after 
entering the United States Senate had become a national 
figure, but I confess that, as a Progressive Republican, I 
came to Washington somewhat prejudiced against his 
political attitude and activities. During the closing days 
of the Sixty-first Congress, however, I found myself ob- 
serving and studying him more closely. More and more 
was I impressed with his industry and perseverance, his 
intimate knowledge of all measures that came before the 
Senate, his terse commendations of those he considered 
meritorious and his scathing denunciation of those he 
regarded wrong or ill-advised. 

It mattered not to him whether the measure he dis- 
approved was championed by his political friends and col- 
leagues, his position never swayed. Long before the end 
of the Sixty-first Congress there sprung up within my 
inner consciousness an admiration for the man. His inti- 

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mate knowledge of all legislation coming before the Sen- 
ate, his careful analysis of every proposal, his quick per- 
ception, his energetic protests, his keen and logical thrusts 
at his adversaries in debate, excited my admiration and 
wonder, and I could not help feeling when he died that 
the country had suffered the loss of one of its most pains- 
taking and industrious public men — a statesman, indeed — 
and one who had probably checked as much unwise and 
ill-considered legislation as any man of equal service who 
ever sat in Congress. 

Senator Heyburn's interest in public questions was so 
unceasing and his capacity for work so inordinate that 
but little, if any, legislation ever passed the Senate during 
his period of service without either his earnest assistance 
or his vigorous opposition. His unflinching courage and 
his indomitable zeal have earned for him a lasting place 
in America's political history. 

Mr. Speaker, when the wires carried the intelligence 
that death had brought to an end the career of Senator 
Heyburn his home State of Idaho felt it had sustained a 
great loss, and this feeling was shared by the Nation. 

The press of the country, engaged as it was in a bitter 
political struggle, did not fail to give a full meed of praise 
and a calm judgment of mankind on the life and work of 
a great man, and I will insert in this brief tribute a few of 
the many expressions of the press of the country, some 
of his home State and some of other States of the Nation. 

The Idaho Statesman, on October 18, 1912, said : 

When one who has been a tried and true friend dies, the loss 
is not expressible in badges or in tears. We may not have agreed 
with him in all things, but we could always depend upon him as 
a friend, never faltering in his loyalty for us nor in his duty 
to us. 

The State of Idaho has just lost such a friend in the death of 
Senator Heyburn. Many of the people he represented so long 



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in public place have not always agreed with him, but they knew 
he could be depended upon to fight for his State, and he always 
did it. 



Senator Heyburn was a " standpatter " because he was never 
vacillating. He could no more indorse irrational or radical ideas, 
paraded under any guise, than he could abandon his position 
for fear the crowd might not applaud him. He was conserva- 
tive in all things, some say ultraconservative, because it was 
the surest guaranty of safety, in his opinion; and time generally 
vindicated his judgment. Because of his strict adherence to con- 
stitutional forms, because of his allegiance to the traditions of 
our fathers, the Senator encountered many foes who might not 
otherwise have been pitted against him; but they ever found him 
equal to their most skilled attack and challenging their best 
defense. 



The keynote of Weldon Brinton Heyburn's life work was 
" courage "; the pattern woven in the fabric of his official career 
was " firmness "; the lesson he leaves us is their application. 

The Salt Lake Herald-Republican said: 

Senator Heyburn was a statesman of high ideals, unflinching 
courage, and steadfast in his adherence to the principles of the 
Republican Party. He took high rank in the Senate and wielded 
a powerful influence. 

The New York Tribune said : 

The State of Idaho can easily elect a successor to Weldon B. 
Heyburn, but no one can really replace him in the United States 
Senate. His position in that body was unique. He delighted to 
be classified as a " standpatter." He was really a " standpatter " 
who bent backward. It will be impossible to find another man 
who will play the part of ultraconservative with the unction, the 
sincerity, and effectiveness which Mr. Heyburn always displayed 
and which finally made him one of the institutions of the Senate. 
He was himself institutional in character, rooted in convictions 
and prejudices which never could be shaken by any mere dis- 
turbances of the outer crust of politics. 

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He remained patriarchal in his ideas, just as if the patriarchal 
age was a thing of yesterday. When the Senate was discussing 
an eight-hour law for Federal employees, he quoted the com- 
mandment, "Six days shalt thou labor"; and said that, in his 
opinion, a day meant the space between sunrise and sunset. Not 
in a spirit of humorous exaggeration, but in one of downright 
seriousness, he contended that it was a neglect of the biblical 
injunction to call eight hours a day for working purposes. He 
was willing himself to work from candlelight to candlelight, and 
wanted everybody else to live up to the ancient pastoral standard. 

In tariff legislation he held that a higher duty was always 
preferable to a lower duty, and no duty could be put too high to 
please him. He never realized that the Civil War was over, and 
felt it a duty to rasp the sensibilities of his southern colleagues 
whenever anything was proposed which even squinted at a con- 
donation of secession or official recognition as such of former par- 
ticipants in the war against the Union. He was uncomfortably 
inflexible on that as on all other subjects. 

Yet with all his irreconcilableness he was a useful and popular 
Senator. He never spared himself, and won his way to the front 
as a legislator by sheer endurance and capacity. He fought 
through the pure-food bill and later took the lead in codifying the 
laws of the United States — a wearying but very important work. 
He enjoyed the respect of his colleagues because he was positive 
and earnest in all things — a man who thrived on antagonism, but 
whose public services were always transparently clear and honest. 
His extremism never incapacitated him for helpful service or 
obscured his sterling personal worth. 

The Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune felt that— 

In the death of United States Senator W. B. Heyburn Idaho has 
lost a great man. He was great in many ways. His absolute fear- 
lessness, his tremendous steadfastness, were marked characteris- 
tics. That he lacked tact was one of his failings, but it was a 
human failing and a forgivable one. As a Senator of the United 
States, as a statesman and lawmaker, he was far above the average. 
His deep knowledge of the law made him a looming figure in the 
greatest legislative body in the world. Big of body, heart, and 
mind, he stood out prominently among the men in the upper 
Chamber. 



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The Portland Oregonian commented: 

What Heyburn believed he believed with all his heart and 
mind, so that he invited and sustained the criticisms and attacks 
of many opponents. But he was an honest man and courageous. 
If he talked too much, he always talked well. If he hated dis- 
loyalty, he made manifest his own patriotism by outright word 
and deed. If he was too prone to deem others wrong, he strove 
always himself to be right. Idaho will miss Senator Heyburn, 
and so will the Nation. Likely enough the Senate needed a cor- 
rective force and an admonitory voice. 

The Hailey (Idaho) Times said of Senator Heyburn: 

An indefatigable worker, no important measure ever secured 
the attention of the Senate without his voice being heard either 
in support or opposition to it until illness incapacitated him. 
Endowed with many qualities of leadership, he immediately upon 
taking his seat took a front rank in the greatest deliberative body 
in the world, and he sustained it to the end. 

The Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, a stanch Democratic 
paper, spoke as follows: 

It is observed that in the tributes being paid to the dead states- 
man all are impressed by his loyalty and love for this State of his 
free adoption. And that epitaph is fine enough to rear over the 
relics of any man. There may have been minds of greater bril- 
liancy and tongues of more silvery eloquence, but there was none 
who loved his country more and served his constituency so tire- 
lessly. He was a man who lived up to his creed, and in his clean 
record there can be found some useful lessons for those who 
survive him, and especially for the ambitious young men of his 
adopted State. 

The Richfield (Idaho) Recorder commented as follows: 

No one ever wondered where he would be found or whether he 
would be in the same place the next time; everybody knew where 
he would be — that he would stay. The sublime virtue of stead- 
fastness was his in the superlative degree. It was a virtue which 
helped win Idaho a commanding place in the councils of the 
Nation. 



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The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- 
lution previously adopted, the Chair declares the House 
adjourned until 10.30 o'clock to-morrow morning. 

Accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 28 minutes p. m.) the 
House adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, February 24, 
1913, at 10.30 o'clock a. m. 



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Death of Senator Heyburn 

[From the Washington (D. C.) Post, Oct. 18, 1912] 

Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn, of Idaho, died at the Wyo- 
ming Apartments last night, after a lingering illness. He was 60 
years old and had been in the Senate nine years. A complication 
of diseases involving the heart and kidneys caused the Senator's 
death. He had not been well since last March, when he collapsed 
after delivering a speech in the Senate on the arbitration treaties 
in spite of the doctor's warning that the effort might cost him 
his life. 

Several weeks ago, apparently gaining strength after a serious 
relapse, the Senator and Mrs. Heyburn made preparations for a 
trip West. Another relapse followed, however, and since then 
the patient had been growing steadily weaker. Yesterday the 
doctors thought he had slightly improved, but death came sud- 
denly a few minutes before 8 o'clock last night. 

Senator Heyburn recently suffered frequent attacks of heart 
failure. Warned by his physicians that he must not work so 
hard, he replied that he knew " no nobler way to die than fight- 
ing for his convictions." He made a game fight for life up to 
the last and took frequent short rides in his automobile up until 
the last two weeks. For the past four days he had been given 
oxygen in large quantities and spent most of his time sitting in a 
chair by a window overlooking Connecticut Avenue, where he 
seemed to breathe easier. Last Monday he called up Philadelphia 
by telephone and asked his brother Elwood M., two years his 
junior, to come to Washington. The brother did, and since then 
the two had many interesting talks of their boyhood days spent 
near the Germantown battle fleld. 

The Senator was attended by his wife, his brother, Miss M. F. 
Yeatman, a sister-in-law, and one of his secretaries, Hugh F. 
Smith, and his last words addressed to them were, " I have lived 
my life as best I could within the power of human limitation " 
and " I am worn out in the service of a great cause." 



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Washington, D. C, October 19, 1912. 

Simple funeral services for the late Senator Weldon Bmnton 
Heyburn, of Idaho, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the 
family home here. The services were conducted by Rev. Ulysses 
G. B. Pierce, Chaplain of the Senate. The apartment was crowded 
with friends assembled to pay their last respects, among them 
several Members of the Senate, various Government officials, and 
personal friends not in official life. After prayer. Dr. Pierce read 
a selection from the Psalms and fourteenth chapter of John, and 
also selections from Lowell's " Elegy on the Death of Dr. Chan- 
ning," which was particularly appropriate, and from Whittier's 
"The Eternal Goodness." Having long known Senator Heyburn, 
Chaplain Pierce paid a personal tribute to him as a man and as a 
statesman. The services were brief and closed with prayer. 
There was no music. 

The body of Senator Heyburn was placed in a handsome black 
broadcloth-covered casket with silver mountings, a duplicate of 
that in which the late Justice Harlan was buried. It bears a 
silver plate inscribed: 

" Weldon Brinton Heyburn, May 23, 1852, October 17, 1912." 

The parlor of the Heyburn home, in which the body lay, was 
literally filled with flowers, the tributes of loving friends. The 
casket was banked high and the pedestals completely hidden 
with blooms, while around the room were innumerable set pieces 
and clusters of flowers. From the Senate was a large cluster of 
American Beauty roses, orchids, violets, lilies, and white chrys- 
anthemums. The Republican League of Idaho sent an anchor of 
white roses, the Idaho Woolgrowers' Association a bank of white 
roses and white chrysanthemums, and the lead workers of the 
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine a wreath of American Beauty roses 
intermingled with orchids and pink chrysanthemums. 

Accompanying the remains of Senator Heyburn to-morrow will 
be the widow; the Senator's two brothers, Elwood and William; 
his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Florence Yeatman; his sister, Mrs. 
Henry C. Marshall, and her husband; and his two secretaries. 
Miss Ellen C. Talbot and Hugh F. Smith. 

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The casket was draped with American flags, the first flags to 
carry stars of Arizona and New Mexico. One of the flags was 
the identical flag that floated over the United States Senate the 
night the Senator made his last address in that Chamber. 

To-morrow morning the remains will be taken on an early train 
to Pennsylvania for burial. 

Vice President Sherman appointed as a committee from the 
United States Senate to attend the funeral Senators Borah, Gal- 
linger, Lodge, Bacon, Martin, Warren, McCumber, Bailey, Dilling- 
ham, Clapp, Clarke of Arkansas, Clark of Wyoming, Smoot, Stone, 
Oliver, Pomerene, and Paynter. 



[From the Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa., Oct. 21, 1912] 

BURIAL OF SENATOR HEYBURN- — OVER 1,000 PEOPLE WITNESS THE LAST 

RITES AT BIRMINGHAM DELEGATION FROM UNITED STATES SENATE 

AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WERE PRESENT AS HONORARY PALL- 
BEARERS TOUCHING ADDRESSES AT GRAVE 

Just as the October sun was descending in the west, tinting the 
trees in the background in their fall foliage with a halo of golden 
colors, fully 1,000 persons, many of whom were people of note, 
stood with bowed heads in the historic little Birmingham Ceme- 
tery and paid silent tribute as the remains of United States Senator 
Weldon Brinton Heyburn were lowered into the grave. 

In the crowd that stood with uncovered heads were several of 
his colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives, who 
had come on a special train from Washington to pay their respects 
to the dead statesman, and all of them showed the deep feeling 
they cherished for the man whom they had grown to love even 
if in some of the battles he had waged for the country's good they 
had not agreed with his views. 

Long before the funeral procession arrived many teams and 
automobiles drove into the cemetery, while many, owing to the 
beautiful day, walked from near-by points, and while waiting for 
the remains to arrive wended their way through the " little city 
of the dead " and viewed the graves of relatives and friends long 
since departed. 

The funeral party arrived in West Chester from Washington on 
a special train at 1.15. The front coach contained the committee 



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which represented the United States Senate, of which Mr. Hey- 
BUBN was a member, and consisted of Senator Thomas H. Paynter, 
of Kentucky; Senator Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio; Senator George T. 
Oliver, of Pennsylvania; and Senator Bankhead, of Alabama. 
Congressman R. O. Moon, of Philadelphia, representing the House 
of Representatives, was also in the party. The committee was in 
charge of Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the Senate E. L. Cornelius 
and Acting Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives 
William D. Nichols. In the other coaches were Mrs. Heyburn; 
William Heyburn, of Kentucky; Mrs. Wesley Batting, of Montclair, 
N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Marshall, of Swarthmore, Pa.; Mr. and 
Mrs. EUwood M. Heyburn, of Swarthmore, Pa., a brother of the 
late Senator; and many other relatives who were accompanying 
the remains to their last resting place. 

Arriving in this place the party took cabs and followed the 
hearse to Birmingham Meeting House. Here Congressman Thomas 
S. Butler, who was appointed on the committee from the House of 
Representatives, met the party, and the funeral cortege was 
formed with the Senators and Congressmen in the lead and the 
remains, covered with the United States flag sent from the Senate 
Chamber, the first one made containing the 48 stars, was carried 
into the little meeting house, which by this time was filled to over- 
flowing. The casket was placed in the front of the room and at 
its head was placed a beautiful floral tribute from the United 
States Senate in the shape of a wreath of roses and smilax on a 
pedestal. In the gallery at the front of the room the pallbearers 
and the Representatives from Washington were seated. 

After a short period of silence Henry W. Wilbur, of Swarth- 
more, a leading member of the Society of Friends, arose and 
delivered a most beautiful talk on the virtues of the dead man. 
His remarks, plainly heard all over the room and by those on the 
outside, were perfect in thought as to the life of usefulness that 
Senator Heyburn had lived and the great lesson he had taught the 
living as to the doing of good and charitable acts. Mr. Wilbur's 
remarks brought tears to the eyes of many by the able manner in 
which they were delivered. 

The substance of Mr. Wilbur's remarks follows: 

" This large company of friends of Senator Heyburn's early 
days, their children and their children's children, make words 
idle and eulogy superfluous. They speak the general respect 



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which the memory of his youth and the service of his manhood 
have inspired. Yet to quote Whittier: 

" ' It may be my friend might miss, 

" ' In his new sphere of heart and mind, 
" ' Some token of my hand in this.' 

" Because of this feeling I pay a willing tribute to the departed 
Senator. Whatever may be said we trust it will reflect his own 
philosophy of life and the ideals which that philosophy devel- 
oped, at the same time helping to bring the lesson of his labor 
home to each one of us. 

" It has been my privilege to watch Senator Heyburn from the 
gallery many times during the past few years, and this obser- 
vation has crystallized into certain definite conclusions. At the 
center of his purpose was the quality of faithfulness. It was 
rarely that Senator Heyburn was not found in his place as the 
sessions of the Senate dragged their sometimes weary length along. 
If others were loitering in the lobby or pursuing their private 
interests, he was attending to his duties, as he saw them, as the 
Senator of his adopted State. Seriousness of manner and direct- 
ness of speech made him hew to the line. Yet his labor brought 
a general recognition for honesty of purpose, so that some of his 
best personal friends are those not of his political household of 
faith. 

" One distinct service which Senator Heyburn performed was 
to put forever at rest the notion that a man who stands for the 
established order must be a timeserver and dishonest at heart. 
No one ever heard our friend assail what he fully believed to be 
present-day folly or uphold the validity of the old ethical and 
political standards without feeling that the utterance was that of 
an honest man saying things, however unwelcome or unpleasant, 
in which he profoundly believed. 

" This simple lesson has vital value in our time, when the dis- 
position is to measure worth by prejudice and seeming rather 
than by the positive performances of the life. It may be in order 
to say here that the preservation of free government in our coun- 
try depends upon the recognition of individual worth and an 
increase in the fundamental faith which men have in their fellow- 
men. 

" Senator Heyburn was distinctly a man of faith. That faith 
skipped most of the intricacies of the theological formulas to 
find its anchorage in the essentials which make up the fiber of a 



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really spiritual religion. His faith in God was the faith of ex- 
perience, as his faith in men was the product of knowledge and 
eontact. 

"Just before his eyes closed upon the things of the outward 
day to open upon the hills of the eternal morning, the Senator 
expressed to his brother the fullness of his heart. He knew that 
the body, worn and torn in the public service, was about to be 
dissolved, but he looked into the future, beyond its mists and its 
mysteries, with hope and confidence and without fear. Of the 
first immortality, made up of the stream of helpful influence 
which a man leaves behind him, our friend had made himself 
certain. In the second immortality, God's gracious gift of life 
continuous, he had unshaken confidence. 

" Living in and catching the softer spirit of our time, death to 
him was not the visitation of an avenging fury, but another evi- 
dence of the kindness and tender mercy of our heavenly Father. 
Physical death is as biologically necessary as birth, and really no 
more mysterious, for the mystery of the cradle is as dense as the 
mystery of the coffin and both are only wisely met by a philos- 
ophy of life which considers this life not simply a preparation 
for death, but a getting ready for more life. In this really Chris- 
tian and spiritual philosophy Senator Heyburn lived. The placid 
contour of his face in death is evidence of the internal motives 
of his life and labor. 

" The last lesson of the hour, that impresses us in the presence 
of the glory of the outward sunshine and the grandeur of our 
friend's native hills, is the old lesson of human duty and sym- 
pathy as they center themselves to meet the demands of human 
need. It is the lesson so often illustrated of the magnificent way 
our human nature responds to the extraordinary events of life. 
In these limes we are always at our best; the selfish and the 
brutish hide themselves, and the angel of our nature holds the 
reins. Life at its best is simply life ordinarily as good as it is 
when the calamity comes, and the extraordinary need impresses 
itself upon us. 

" Our philosophy of life, the practical gospel we profess, should 
gradually remold us into the even tenor of the more divine life. 
In this way we become more and more like our Elder Brother, 
whose meat and drink was to do the will of the Father who sent 
ffim." 



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Deborah C. Leeds followed with a touching little talk, as did 
Dr. Hannah M. Thompson, of Wilmington. 

The casket was then opened and everyone present passed 
through the room and gazed for the last time on the face of the 
man who had befriended so many during his life. 

At the grave the services were brief. Henry W. Wilbur deliv- 
ered the following prayer: 

" Our Father, we thank Thee for Thy great gift of life, with its 
obligations and its opportunities. Wilt Thou so fill us with Thy 
spirit that we shall always quit ourselves as becometh children of 
the light. 

" We thank Thee for the life and labor of our friend who has 
gone before us to the silent land. For the strength of the hills 
which was his and the loyal purpose of his heart as son, husband, 
brother, and statesman we bless Thee. Wilt Thou make the mem- 
ory of his faithfulness and devotion to duty an impulse for better 
things to all who knew and loved him. Camp with Thy spirit 
round about Thy servants, the servants of the people, that they 
may serve Thee by serving men, standing in their places for the 
perfection of the free constitutional government left us by the 
fathers of the Republic. 

" Visit his near and dear ones, we pray Thee, with the minis- 
tration of Thy divine love, as the supreme comfort in the hour of 
their extremity. When this good woman who has been our 
friend's sympathetic helpmate misses the vanished hands, wilt 
Thou put into her heart an eternal hope which shall ring as a joy 
bell in her soul forever, until she goes to join the goodly company 
of the loved but not the lost. 

" Fill us all with an enduring faith and an unshaken confidence, 
so that when the mists of the evening gather and we can not see 
we shall look for the lamp of Thy spirit to guide us over the hills 
into the morning land of God, feeling certain that Thou, the eter- 
nal shepherd of souls, will lead us all through the green valleys 
and beside the still waters of an immortal service. And Thine 
shall be the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. 
Amen." 

Mrs. Isabell Shortlidge, widow of Joseph Shortlidge, of Con- 
cordville, then advanced to the edge of the grave on the arm of 
her son. Prof. Chauncey Shortlidge, and recited a poem. The 
casket was then lowered into the grave while the near relatives 
passed to view its last resting place. 



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The active pallbearers, six cousins and nephews of the dead 
man, were as follows: Harry Heyburn, Brandywine Summit; 
Frank Heyburn, Philadelphia; Allen Heyburn, Philadelphia; Paul 
Heyburn, Brandywine Summit; Wayne Marshall, Swarthmore; 
George Gamble, West Chester. Frank D. Heyburn and W. Allen 
Heyburn, two of the bearers, are the sons of Hon. George E. Hey- 
burn, formerly a member of the legislature from Delaware County, 
and first cousins of the late Senator Heyburn — George E. Heyburn 
and Senator Heyburn's father being brothers. 

The floral tributes, many and handsome, were conveyed to the 
cemetery in two wagons, and, after the services, were heaped 
over the grave. They consisted of the wreath sent by the United 
States Senate, a beautiful wreath of roses from the House of Rep- 
resentatives, a large anchor from the Republican Club of Idaho, 
a ladder with a broken rung from the Bar Association of Idaho, 
wreaths from Idaho Woolgrowers' Association and lead workers 
of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine, Wardner, Idaho, a pillow of 
roses and violets from several employees in Washington, besides 
numerous other smaller pieces. 

In the huge crowd that assembled at the grave were noticed 
the following persons who had been friendly with the dead Sen- 
ator during his life: Judge William Voorhees, New York City; 
Judge Isaac Johnson, V. Gilpin Robinson, Media; Hon. Richard J. 
Baldwin, Chadds Ford; I. Gary Carver and family, John Huey, 
George Huey, A. P. Ingram and wife, Horace Butler, C. Wesley 
Talbot, Esq., William M. Hayes, Esq., Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Philips, 
Samuel D. Ramsey, Esq., Harris L. Sproat, Esq., Harvey Darlington 
and family, Thomas W. Baldwin, Esq., Morris Shields, Alban Har- 
vey, John Cuncannon, and Thomas Grady (Kennett Square), Mr. 
and Mrs. Samuel L. Martindale, Edwin S. Darlington, Norman Bar- 
nard, W. W. Heed, T. Darlington Frame, Casper Darlington, Jesse 
Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. W. Harry Cochran, James F. Cobourn and 
wife. Dr. Frank P. Cobourn, Joseph Johnson (Downington), 
James Garvin (Oxford), Percy Darlington, George Lance (Phila- 
delphia). 



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Proclamation by the Governor of Idaho 

In the death of United States Senator Weldon B. Heyburn the 
State of Idaho has lost her leading citizen and most honored pub- 
lic servant, and sorrow has entered every home : Now, I, James H. 
Hawley, governor of Idaho, voice the universal sentiment of the 
people of the State in requesting that the date of the funeral of 
our distinguished fellow citizen — Sunday, October 20, 1912 — be 
observed as a day of mourning throughout the Commonwealth 
that he loved so dearly and served with such marked zeal, ability, 
and unflinching courage. 

May the American flag on all public and private buildings float 
at half-mast, and in the religious gatherings of the day may the 
life of the departed statesman be made the theme of patriotic 
services as a token of the esteem and love in which Weldon B. 
Heyburn was held by his fellow citizens. His memory will be 
cherished for the ages, for — 

His life was gentle, and the elements 

So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up 

And say to all the world, " This was a man 1 " 

Done at the capitol at Boise, Idaho, this 19th day of October, 
A. D. 1912. 

James H. Hawley, 

Governor of Idaho. 
By the governor: 

W. L. GiFFORD, 

Secretary of State. 



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Concurrent Resolution of the Idaho Legislature 

Whereas Almighty God in His infinite wisdom has removed from 
the ranks of earthly endeavor Hon. Weldon B. Heyburn, a stal- 
wart in the higher ideals and principles of civic life and the 
better human achievements; and 

Whereas his death has caused a great loss to the Commonwealth 
of Idaho and to the Federal Government and to his family and 
friends: Now, therefore, be it 

Resolved by the senate (the house of representatives concur- 
ring), That as a token of the keen appreciation for services ren- 
dered in behalf of the State of Idaho and the Federal Government 
that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the 
journals of both houses and that a copy suitably engrossed be 
sent to his widow. 



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[From the Idaho Statesman, Boise, March 3, 1913] 

MEMORIAL HELD FOR SENATOR HEYBURN ^DECEASED SOLON EULOGIZED 

IN ADDRESS UPON CHARACTER DISPLAYED BY HIM A CONSCIENTIOUS 

WORKER HAD THE COURAGE OF HIS CONVICTIONS AND FEARED NOT 

POPULAR CLAMOR 

The character of the late Senator Heyburn formed the theme 
of the eulogies paid to his memory at the memorial exercises held 
in the Pinney Theater yesterday afternoon. The theater was well 
filled with members of the legislature and many friends of the 
former senior Senator from this State attended the exercises. 
Lieut. Gov. Taylor presided during the afternoon and addresses 
were made by A. A. Fraser and Judge J. H. Richards. Glowing 
tributes were given to the memory of Senator Heyburn, in which 
he was characterized as a man who did not care for popularity, 
but rather secured his joy from his work by believing that the 
things which he advocated were right. 

A. A. Fraser, the first speaker to pay tribute to the work of Sen- 
ator Heyburn during the time he represented this State in the 
upper House of Congress, began his address by referring to the 
legal attainments of the deceased Senator and his standing among 
the members of the bar of this and other States in the Northwest. 
He referred to the great works performed by Senator Heyburn 
for the benefit of the Nation and the State. The speaker said 
although he was not a popular man in the accepted sense of the 
word, that he was a man who had the courage of his convictions 
and would not stop because he thought that some one might be 
offended by his telling the truth about matters of legislation or 
sounding warnings concerning the unstability of the theories ad- 
vocated by those who wished to secure the attention of the public 
ear through demagogic utterances. 

Mr. Fraser during his eulogy referred to the painstaking man- 
ner in which the late Senator did the work which was assigned to 
him without fear that the position taken or the opinion reached by 
him would not be popular with the great masses. He referred 



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to the widow of the late Senator and the great regard he had for 
his home. 

Judge J. H. Richards, in speaking of the late Senator, stated 
that he thought that he developed his rugged character from his 
early associations on the farm and in the placer mining camps 
of the North. He recalled various incidents in the life of the late 
Senator with which he had personal contact. In speaking of 
Senator Heyburn, Judge Richards said: 

"Although the great majoritj' did not agree with him in all 
things, yet there were qualities in his character which were ad- 
mired by all people. Senator Heyburn would have risen to prom- 
inence in any race of people or any nation, because he had the 
courage of his convictions and was not afraid to voice them, even 
if the entire State turned against him for doing so. 

" He had the qualities which make lor enduring greatness rather 
than for transitory praise and momentary popularity. It is not 
the person of Senator Heyburn that we honor here to-day, but it 
is those qualities which made his character great that we wish to 
extol for those who are to come after us. These are qualities 
which we call noble and go to make up the man; these are the 
qualities which we call true and which made the late Senator 
brave and true to his convictions. He was the same always, not 
shifting with the winds of sentiment. 

" It is not the man who always agrees with us that is the safest 
man for us to follow. It is not the man who rides along on the 
wave of popularity that does us the most good. The man who 
has the courage to stand up and tear from our faces the mask of 
hypocrisy so that we may see ourselves as the world sees us is 
the man that does the most good for his State and Nation. The 
man who ia always studying the needs of his country and who 
warns the people of impending clamors and urges them to guard 
themselves against certain things is the safe man to listen to in 
the hour of need. Such a man was Senator Heyburn, who feared 
nothing and who foretold many of the things which are here and 
which every indication points to coming. 

" When he was in the Senate he did not feel that he represented 
a little coterie of citizens in Idaho or anywhere else. He repre- 
sented the Nation at large, and his opinions and convictions were 
based upon that theory of representation. When he stood in the 
Halls of Congress and voiced his opinion upon matters, no man 
from Idaho needed to be ashamed of him or feel reluctant to 

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admit that Idaho produced men like him. No man was ever con- 
fronted by a foe more worthy of his steel than Senator Heyburn, 
whether it was in legal battle, upon the stump, or in the making 
of laws for the government of the Nation. It mattered not to him 
whether the whole State of Idaho disagreed with him or not, be- 
cause he never voiced his opinions until he was satisfied he was 
right. He did not fear that he would say something unpopular. 
It takes a man of sterling character to stand out before all and 
tell the truth concerning matters in this day and age, and Senator 
Heyburn was one of the few men who had that courage and 
feared no one. 

" He was an industrious man at all times. He did his work 
without thought of monetary remuneration, but rather from a 
love of doing things right. If he attempted to dig a ditch he 
would not think of how much he was to receive for it, but rather 
would want to dig a better ditch than had been dug before. 

" When the matter of placing the statue of Robert E. Lee in the 
Capitol at Washington was before the Senate, Senator Heyburn 
objected. He did not object upon the ground of the individuality 
of Lee or upon the ground that any individual was involved. He 
looked at the matter as a thing affecting the Nation. The rebellion 
was uppermost in his mind and not the individuals who fought 
in that great war. What he objected to was the rebellion and not 
to Lee. In this he showed he was not a man concerned about the 
popular will. It takes courage for a man, whether it be in poli- 
tics, religion, or socially, to stand up and state his real convictions 
upon the matter. 

" If the people understood the motives which were behind Sen- 
ator Heyburn they would love him better." 

Representative A. H. Conner read the joint memorial of the two 
houses of the legislature upon the death of Senator Heyburn, 
and it was adopted by a rising vote. The program of the after- 
noon was as follows: 

Invocation, senate chaplain, A. B. Wright; music, orchestra; 
eulogy, Hon. A. A. Fraser; music, orchestra; eulogy, Hon. J. H. 
Richards; the question on the adoption of the resolution; bene- 
diction, house chaplain, A. L. Chapman; music; and assembly 
dissolves. 

Legislative committee on arrangements: George W. Edgington, 
senator Bonneville and Bingham Counties; A. H. Conner, repre- 
sentative Bonner County; P. G. Johnston, representative Bingham 
County. 



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Among the many messages of sympathy received by 
Mrs. Heyburn were the following: 

[Telegram from President Taft] 

Beverly, Mass.. October IS. 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Mrs. Taft and I extend to you our heartfelt sympathy in your 
great sorrow. Senator Heyburn was an able, consistent, cour- 
ageous statesman and patriot, and I greatly mourn his loss. 

Wm. H. Taft. 

[Telegram from Vice President Sherman] 

Utica, N. Y., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I am shocked and grieved almost beyond expression at Senator 
Heyburn's taking away. I have long known, with all his intimate 
friends, that he has stood at his place in the Senate when he 
should have been in an invalid bed, but his marvelous bravery and 
indomitable will it seemed could and would withstand the rav- 
ages of physical disease. Alas, that it could not! In his death 
his country has lost a truly great and patriotic character, a states- 
man of broad and liberal views, who in the discharge of weighty 
and numerous obligations knew neither fear nor fatigue, whose 
sole rule of action was " My country's best good." He will for 
long be missed by the associates whose admiration and regard 
his merits and worth won and held. Personally I had for him 
the veneration and affection of a parent. That affection will en- 
dure to you who knew him as no other on earth and to whom 
this blow is overwhelming. I offer deepest and tenderest sym- 
pathy, in which Mrs. Sherman joins. 

James S. Sherman. 



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[Telegram from former Vice President Fairbanks] 

Iowa City, Iowa, October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C.: 
Accept my profound sympathy in your great sorrow. I greatly 
admired Senator Heyburn — an able, fearless public servant. 

Charles W. Fairbanks. 

[Telegram from former Speaker Cannon] 

Danville, III., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
With deep regret I learn of the death of your distinguished 
husband. Able, strong, courageous, he lived up to the best tradi- 
tions of American manhood and served his country well. Accept 
my sympathy in your great bereavement. 

Joseph G. Cannon. 

[Telegram from Senator Borah] 

Cottonwood, Idaho, October 17, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I tender you in your great bereavement my sincere sympathy. 
The State has indeed lost a great Senator. Anything I can do 
to help you in your sorrow please let me know. 

William E. Borah. 

[Telegram from Senator Lodge] 

Nahant, Mass., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Deeply grieved by news of Senator Heyburn's death. Please 
accept most heartfelt sympathy from Mrs. Lodge and myself. 

H. C. Lodge. 

[Telegram from Senator Dillingham] 

Montpelier, Vt., October 19, 1912. 
Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I beg to assure you of my deep sympathy in your great sorrow 
and to express my regret that, owing to engagements which it is 
too late to break, I shall not be able to be present at the funeral on 

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Sunday as a member of the Senate committee appointed by the 
Vice President. 

W. P. Dillingham. 

[Telegram from Senator Bacon] 

New York, N. Y., October IS, 1912. 
Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 

Washington. D. C: 
I beg to express my profound sympathy and personal sorrow in 
the death of Senator Heybvrn, for whom I entertained warm per- 
sonal regard and friendship. His passing away is a distinct loss 
to the Senate and Nation. 

A. O. Bacon. 

[Telegram from Senator Penrose] 

Philadelphia, Pa., October IS, 1912. 
Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Accept my sincere sympathy in the great bereavement you have 
experienced in the death of your distinguished husband. 

Boies Penrose. 

[Telegram from Senator Clark, of Wyoming] 

Waterloo, Iowa, October IS, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Mrs. Clark and myself join in heartfelt sympathy with you in 
your great sorrow. The country has suffered an irreparable loss, 
but Senator Heyburn's works will follow and prove a permanent 
and inspiring benefit. 

C. D. Clark. 
[Telegram from Senator Fletcher] 

Jacksonville, Fla., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Let me tender my sincere sympathy. 

Duncan U. Fletcher. 

[Telegram from Senator Lea] 

Nashville, Tenn., October IS, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Mrs. Lea joins me in deepest sympathy upon the death of your 
distinguished husband. 

Luke Lea. 

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[Telegram from Senator Massey] 

Reno, Nev.. October 18. 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Mrs. Massey and I extend our deepest sympathy in your great 
bereavement. The State of Idaho and the country have suffered 
an irreparable loss. 

W. A. Massey. 

[Telegram from Senator McLean] 

Roland Springs, Me., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Please accept deepest sympathy from Mrs. McLean and myself. 

George P. McLean. 

[Telegram from Senator Wetmore] 

New York City, N. Y., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
We are greatly grieved at the Senator's death. Wish to offer 
our deepest sympathy to you. In his death our country loses an 
upright and fearless representative. My wife sends you her best 
love. 

Geo. Peabody Wetmore. 

[Telegram from Senator W^atson] 

Fairmont, W. Va., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
The deatli of Senator Heyburn shocics me beyond expression. 
You have ray most sincere sympatliy. 

C. W. Watson. 

[Telegram from Senator Sanders] 

Chattanooga, Tenn., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I am very much grieved over the death of Senator Heyburn. 
He was especially beloved to me. 

Newell Sanders. 

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[Cablegram from Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim] 

Paris, France, October 19, 1912. 
Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
You have our heartfelt sympathy. 

Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim. 

[Telegram from former Senator Ankeny] 

Walla Walla, Wash., October, 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Mrs. Ankeny joins in sympathy in your deep atOiction. 

Levi Ankeny. 

[Telegram from Gov. Hawley, of Idaho] 

MoNTPELiER, Idaho, October 17, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I sympathize with your bereavement, which is also the State's. 

James H. Hawley. 

[Telegram from Representative French] 

Portland, Oreo., October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
Mrs. French and I are inexpressibly shocked and grieved be- 
cause of death of Senator Heyburn. Idaho has lost her fore- 
most citizen and the Nation one of her ablest statesmen. We ex- 
tend to you our deepest sympathy in this hour. 

Burton L. French. 

[Telegram from former Gov. Brady] 

Pocatello, Idaho, October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I was shocked and grieved to learn of the passing away of your 
distinguished husband. In his death the Nation has lost one of its 
greatest statesmen and Idaho one of her most valued citizens. 
There is no part of the history of Idaho that can be written with- 
out giving Senator Heyburn favorable mention for honest and 
splendid work for the betterment and upbuilding of our State. 
"Your grief is my grief, and I extend to you in this hour of be- 
reavement ray most heartfelt sympathy. 

James H. Brady. 

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[Telegram from former Governor and Mrs. Gooding, of Idaho] 

Gooding, Idaho, October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. Gooding joins me in sending you our deepest sympathy in 
the death of your husband. The State of Idaho and the Nation 
have lost one of their strongest characters. He always had the 
courage to fight for those things that he believed were right, and 
those who knew him best loved him most. 

Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Gooding. 

[Telegram from United States Judge Dietrich] 

PocATELLO, Idaho, October 18, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I learned of death of Senator Heyburn with the deepest sorrow. 
Please accept my sincere sympathy. The loss to the State is im- 
measurable. 

F. S. Dietrich. 

(Telegram from Addison T. Smith, secretary to Senator Heyburn] 

Tekoa, Wash., October 17, 1912. 
Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 

Washington, D. C: 
I am greatly shocked to learn of the Senator's death and hasten 
to extend my most sincere sympathy. Truly a great man has gone 
whose marvelous intellect and distinguished service to his country 
have made an impression on the people which time will not efface. 
Regret I can not be with you in this hour of grief. 

Addison T. Smith. 



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